Wednesday March 24, 2010
Pope's brother.

Hey, how come there's all this big stink about the Pope's brother slapping some of his students when he taught in Germany. What's the big deal. Maybe if we had more of that today, we might not have so many really lunatic fringe students who go around shooting other kids at parties because they don't like their choice in music.

Everyone who is Catholic out there, put up your hand if you got smacked in the back of the head by a priest ot a nun. Wow, I bet thousands of hands went up. A smack sometimes helps smarten you up. The biggest mistake that the yuppie generation ( that includes yours truly) made was listening to that idiot Doctor Spock. It's all his fault that we have so many misanthropic teenagers and young people out there. Somebody should have burned all his books years ago. Yikes, that's something I don't approve of. No book burnings, okay...not a good idea...hate that idea...pretend I never said that. We could have burned him at the stake instead. Wait , okay this burning thing is getting out of hand. I know, we should have sent him back to the planet Vulcan... yeah that's it.

Wednesday March 24, 2010
Universal to drop cd prices.

Well it's about frackin' time.

Universal Music Group, the largest music company in the world, I believe has decided to cut its prices in an effort to get some market share back. Thay are cutting their prices to $10.00 or less. This is a smart move on their part. After all it is a hell of a lot cheaper to produce a cd than it was to produce vinyl records. It should never had gotten tot eh prices they did.

Now if they really want to make this $10 sale price work they should release the cd with music files and they should always include computer file or mp3 versions of the songs so people can put them on their mp3 player instead of having to rip the disks or buy the songs from Apple or heaven forbide from pirate sites. This should be on all cds, them maybe I'll buy some again.

Let's help keep those prices down by going out and buying some when the price drops.

Wednesday March 24, 2010
Health care in U.S

Well it's about time the U.S. listened to Canada nad the rest of the world and had health care for everyone. Now we don't have to help out Sara Palin and her family that used to go over the Alaska border into Canada to get free medical care. Yup this is the woman who says our health care system sucks. Her family and her used to come across and take advantage of it's polite neighbours.

Well let us see how many U.S. citizens will complain about this free heakth care they will get now. Okay, we all know it isn't free but still it will be nice for the citizenry not to die or go bankrupt while trying to get medical help. Even the Republicans will eventual see the errors of their ways, because if they think they are going to change this if they get into power again they may be in for a rude awakening.

Speaking of Sara Palin. All of those that paid $700 to go see her speak at Carmen's in April should have their heads examined. Hey I believe you have the free right to go see her and and to get your head examined. Who in their right mind would pay $1,000 to get to meet her personally and get your picture taken with her. You want to do some good with that money you're wasting on the Tina Fey lookalike... give it to a homelss shelter or a food bank; then you won't need your head examined.

Wednesday March 24, 2010
24....aaaarrrghh!!!

Anyone else out there thinks that the television 24 has jumped the shark??

After watching this past weeks episode, once again we find that CTU has another mole in its midst. You know every single year there has been a traitor in the CTU ranks. Holy moley Captain America... CTU has the world's worst screening protocols. How the hell does a character who obviously has a criminal record become a CTU agent.

24 seems to depend on traitors in CTU... the presidents office and every other department they can think of. It's amazing the the entire U.S popuation isn't a traitor. Okay it's time for the show to end. Yes folks it seems that this is the last year. I guess they could no longer come up with new story lines that didn't involve traitors within trusted organizations.. What ever happened to good stories like they had on THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. .

Monday March 15, 2010
The Islamic Antichrist

I read this and thought I'd pass it on...take it as you want...me I hold very little credence in the stories of the Anti-Christ...hard to accept if I believe in a good, great and loving God!!!

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Ayatollah sees global Islamic 'Mahdi' army
Calls for Muslim nations to unite militarily under messianic figure

The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of the Beast
WASHINGTON � Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei yesterday called on Muslim nations around the world to unite militarily in response to the imminent coming of Islam's messianic savior � the Mahdi.

Khamenei, through his spokesman Ali Saeedi, specifically beckoned the nations of Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan to join together with Iran in preparation for the Mahdi's soon coming.

The purpose of uniting now, a report in Al Arabiya explained, is to fight Israel and the U.S. � seen as the two greatest obstacles to the coming of the Mahdi and the age of Islamic "justice" that would ensue.

"We have to train honest forces that can stop the obstacles that may hinder the coming of the Mahdi like the United States and Israel," Saeedi stated. Saeedi also emphasized that the Iranian revolutionary guard possessed a special religious authority to prepare the way for the Mahdi.

Iran also recently concluded its fifth Annual Conference on Mahdism doctrine in the Iranian city of Qom, from which Shi'a Muslims believe the Mahdi will emerge.


"While the belief in the Mahdi has been widely held by Shi'a Muslims, it has taken on a dramatically more political tone in recent years since the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," explains Joel Richardson, author of a new book called "The Islamic Antichrist," which hypothesizes that Islam's prophesied Mahdi is one and the same as the Bible's Antichrist.

According to Savyon and Y. Mansharof an Iranian scholar, "From the establishment of the Islamic Regime in 1979 to Ahmadinejad's rise to power in August 2005, Mahdism had been a religious doctrine and a tradition that had no political manifestation. The political system operated independently of this messianic belief and of the anticipation of the return of the Mahdi. It was only with Ahmadinejad's presidency that this religious doctrine has become a political philosophy and taken a central place in politics."

Mahdism is now increasingly being used as a political tool by appealing to the religious and nationalistic tendencies of various Muslims groups. This particular call for Islamic unity stands out because of its pan-Islamic, cross-sectarian appeal.

While many have assumed that the marked rise in fervor and devotion in recent years in Iran was primarily due to the influence of Ahmadinejad, this statement reveals that Mahdist devotion is also held quite fervently by Ayatollah Khamenei as well.

According to Al-Arabiya, Saeedi emphasized that obedience to the Ayatollah is the same as obedience to the Mahdi or the "guided one" � "who is the prophesied savior of Islam."

With news arriving this past week that Iran now has the capability to develop nuclear weapons, the Mahdist conference and this call for Islamic unity under the banner of the Mahdi takes on an added dimension of interest. Last year, one of the presenters at the Mahdist conference, Dr. Mariam Tabar, asserted the, "military capabilities of the future Mahdist state depend on Islamic governments in the here and now acquiring abilities to stand against the enemies of the imam [al-Mahdi]."

Opening the conference this year, was Dr. Mahdi Mostafavi, the chairman of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, who spoke against the dangers and evils of Christian Zionism. "Putting an end to the tyranny and brutality" of Zionism is one of the basic goals of Mahdism, he explained.

Dr. Mostafavi also offered a wildly distorted version of the Christian end time narrative. Claiming that Christians are making efforts to bring about the Battle of Armageddon, he stated:

"In order to make this war happen they consider brutality, war and violence allowed and in their propaganda, they ask Christians and especially soldiers to create a situation for Jesus to reappear. These soldiers would be considered martyrs if they are killed in this way and would be in the circle of Messiah's Twelve disciples," Dr. Mostfavi explained.

"These evangelists try to reinforce their belligerent notion ideologically even by mentioning verses from Gospel. They start war in Afghanistan and Iraq, torture prisoners of war in detention camps like Abu Ghraib, and spread their doctrines throughout the whole world."

While the Christian narrative of the return of Jesus is one where Christians passively await a savior to deliver them from an aggressive empire, Islamic narratives often portray Muslims as aggressively and actively pursuing Islamic world dominance, particularly over the nation of Israel.

This year, it was also announced that Iran will be establishing a University of Mahdism to train theologians and politicians, according to Richardson, who has been assembling details of the recent conference.

One speaker at the conference, Abdollah Adam Gaya from Nigeria, spoke about the need to export Mahdism to the West:

"[In order] to fight against the [Western] cultural invasion against Islamic Shiite values, we must also export the Mahdism culture to the West� Imperialist powers fear the growth of that culture and therefore they are after attacking it. �"

Gaya also explained that the vehicle of Mahdism was the most effective tool to unite not only all Muslim countries, but also the whole world:

"Propagating and defining the Mahdism Culture are the most effective steps in order to establish unity among Muslim Nations of the world because not only Mesianism and Mahdism are the common grounds for understanding between all Muslims but between all religions in the world," he added.

While some Muslims have emphasized the peaceful nature of the Mahdi's reign, many in Iran obviously disagree.

Adnan Oktar, a prominent Turkish intellectual and Sunni author has repeatedly emphasized that under the Mahdi; no blood will be shed, guns and weapons will be eliminated and any traditions which infer anything different are unreliable.

Others however have a very different view. In His work Imam al-Mahdi, the Just Leader of Humanity, Ayatollah Ibrahim al Amini, professor at the Religious Learning Center at Qom affirms Larijani�s comments, when he states, "The Mahdi will offer the religion of Islam to the Jews and Christians; if they accept it they will be spared, otherwise they will be killed."

Richardson's "The Islamic Antichrist" has debuted at No. 1 on Amazon in two religious categories and held those positions for nearly two weeks.

It's not only a hot book at Amazon, it is also hot in e-book format at Scribd. But it is offered autographed only at the WND Superstore.

In "The Islamic Antichrist," Richardson, a student of Islam, exposes Western Christians to the Muslim traditions. He says most Christians have no idea of the stunning similarities between the biblical Antichrist and the "Islamic Mahdi."

Richardson's book stands in stark contrast to most other popular prophecy books of the last 40 years.

The student of the Middle East says that after decades of reading popular prophecy books and even best-selling fiction like the "Left Behind" series, millions of evangelical Christians around the world are expecting the Antichrist to emerge from a revived Roman Empire, which many have assumed is associated with the Roman Catholic Church and the European Union.

Not so, argues Richardson. His book makes the case that the biblical Antichrist is one and the same as the Quran's Muslim Mahdi.

"The Islamic Antichrist" is a book almost certain to be greeted in the Muslim world with the same enthusiasm as Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses." The author is prepared. He has written the book under a pseudonym to protect himself and his family.

"The Bible abounds with proofs that the Antichrist's empire will consist only of nations that are, today, Islamic," says Richardson. "Despite the numerous prevailing arguments for the emergence of a revived European Roman empire as the Antichrist's power base, the specific nations the Bible identifies as comprising his empire are today all Muslim."

Richardson believes the key error of many previous prophecy scholars involves the misinterpretation of a prediction by Daniel to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel describes the rise and fall of empires of the future, leading to the endtimes. Western Christians have viewed one of those empires as Rome, when, claims Richardson, Rome never actually conquered Babylon and was thus disqualified as a possibility.

It had to be another empire that rose and fell and rose again that would lead to rule of this "man of sin," described in the Bible. That empire, he says, is the Islamic empire, which did conquer Babylon and, in fact, rules over it even today.

Many evangelical Christians believe the Bible predicts a charismatic ruler, the Antichrist, will arise in the last days, before the return of Jesus. The Quran also predicts that a man, called the Mahdi, will rise up to lead the nations, pledging to usher in an era of peace. Richardson makes the case these two men are, in fact, one in the same.


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Joel Richardson Joel Richardson is a human rights activist, lecturer, and artist. Involved in evangelism and ministry to Muslims since 1994, he is the co-author, along with Walid Shoebat, of God's War on Terror: Islam, Prophesy, and the Bible and co-editor of Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out

Monday March 15, 2010
Help the poor, not the athletes.

WTF???

Here is a letter to the editor for you to read...

Paul Kokoski
The Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton
(Mar 4, 2010)

Good old Paul Kokoski  obviously believes we should f*&k the athletes and use the money to help the poor. He isn't the only one, actually. Others believe the same thing. What silliness.

Paul, I do believe that the Olympics have become just a way for corporations to make money, but the athletes should not be blamed for this. They need our help to accomplish what they do. That doesn't mean we shouldn't feed the poor. There are social assistance programs that work reasonably well already. At least immigrants come to this country to take advantage of them often enough, so they must be viable.

Our athletes give us some time to be extra proud in ourselves as well as them, and that is not bad and never will be. His comment '...all in the service of petty nationalism'  is an ignorant thing to say. Nationalism is something that is always important; it is what we are. We should be proud of our country and the people willing to sacrifice an easy life to train very day for our countries pride. Paul, you should be ashamed of yourself for saying what you said. You insult Canada and its people. The real Canadian spirit encompasses all the attributes we embed in our society. That involves feeding the poor and helping those willing to sacrifice their time and life for the betterment of our countries pride. If you want to help the poor then feel free to do so as an advocate and by going out and physically donating your time at soup kitchens and shelters. If you do this then you will be in the same league as the athletes that sacrifice their time. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are already doing good deed.

I have many friends who donate their time to help the needy, and they never insulted this countries athletes, to feel self-righteous. Why do you? What happened to your much vaunted Christian beliefs? I guess sometimes they just go AWOL sometimes.

Re: 'Own The Podium needs firm financial footing' (March 2)

I believe the Canadian government should stop funding our Olympic athletes.

While the Olympic ideal -- what's left of it now that it has become professionalized and saturated with corrupt IOC officials, judges and athletes -- still retains a portion of its original moral lustre, there are more crucial things in life that need our immediate attention, like helping the poor and the destitute.

Vince Lombardi, former Super Bowl coach of the NFL's Green Bay Packers, spoke for a generation when he said, "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing."

This mentality has unfortunately become a large part of today's Olympic spirit.

Canada is a nation that prides itself on the virtues of freedom and equality yet contributes to an increasingly disproportionate imbalance between the rich and the poor every time it gives a dollar to elitist athletes -- all in the service of a petty nationalism.

It's time we started creating podiums for those who often, through no fault of their own, find themselves victims of poverty, famine and illness.

This is the real Canadian spirit.

Monday March 15, 2010
Muslims hack Christians to death

Nigeria, the location of the latest of example of how religion drives people to murder and maim the innocent. Religious violence always amazes me. How do people justify the killing of humans in the name of a God we have never seen and will never see until maybe when we die? I could never understand how people who believe in God's goodness and forgiving nature could justify what they do in his name.

Usually I would use this as a way to show how dangerous the Islamic faith can be; how they attacked a Christian village and murdered innocent Christian people. This is becoming old news and saying much more about it is useless because they will continue on this path because they believe they are justified. What they don't realize is that sooner or later the tide will turn against them. Right know a good Muslim understands that as a whole most Christians have been subscribing to the idea of Christ's principles of turning the other cheek. This will change, why? Well the Christian youth of today are not really as religious as their families before them. They have been fed a constant feast of violence in video games, movies, and music and news items. They no longer abide by Christ's rules. They accept that usually if you have the gun and you have been disrespected, it is quite acceptable to shoot people or stab or maim. It goes on every day now. Sooner or later they will feel disrespected by the Islam religion and its insane terrorists and they will not be able to get to the terrorists, but they will be able to get to those that really have nothing to do with terrorism. The innocent will die and it will happen on both sides.

Political correctness and politicians are knowingly and unknowingly felicitating this future violence, by allowing the countries rules to be bent by immigrants, in search of that elusive vote. They all feel that this and other countries should felicitate the immigrants and that is the sad truth. Unfortunately that should not be the case. That is the mistake.

When most of our parents or grandparents or great grandparents left the old countries to come to the new lands of Canada and the United States, they left to get some peace and find prosperity for their families. They did not come here to mooch off of the social welfare programs, they came to work hard and they knew that they had to adapt to a new system. Sure lots of them tried to hold on to their social mores but with each succeeding generation that changed. They taught us to work hard to get ahead. What I don't remember was my father ever telling me to go on social welfare. He taught me to work hard to succeed and make something of myself just as my friends were told. Now I am Canadian and I have no real loyalty to Italy whatsoever. Canada is my home and that is the country I would defend and I would fight against Italy if it ever came to that. Italy's religious or political system does not affect me and I would never let it affect me. My father came over here after the Second World War, after the fighting with the Germans and Japanese but you know, my father never told me to hate any of those races. He accepted this was a new start for everyone now matter what and he did not want to hold over any prejudices he might have had.

Muslims, try to do the same, at least most, but unfortunately too many of them close their eyes to those from the homelands who commit these horrible crimes. They do not do enough to pull themselves away from the homelands. Too many want to bring their homeland here. They don't change easily. Maybe as the generations change the youth will change. Maybe Muslim men will grow a set of testicles and realize that their wives should not be treated the way they were back in the homelands. They should realize that here we have customs that they should adopt, otherwise why the hell come here in the first place. Do they want what they had back home? If they do then why did they come here?

They came to make a better life for themselves just like our ancestors did, but they are too afraid to change their lives by hiding behind the pages of the Koran. Hey, Christians tried the same thing for a long time and some still do, but the majority of the people realized that Church and State should be separated. Once Muslims here realize this, then, they will understand what it really means to live in the free world. Of course if they just came here to sponge off of our social welfare systems then they will not change. Too many immigrants still hold allegiance to their homelands and this has to be respected but if you do still hold that allegiance then why not go back to where your heart really belongs. One can respect that easily. I say this with no malice because I had a number of relatives that came here and they just could not adapt and returned back to Italy. I know many others who just could not let go of their life in the old countries and they returned. They understood that they could not change, and that they had little hope of changing the country to suit them. Unfortunately every day we see in the news how hard Muslims try to change us to accommodate them and our idiot politicians go along with this.

I find it incredible how bold faced Muslims can be, to insist, that they be exempted from security features in airports that were put into place because of their people, and I use the term as a generalization. They do not seem to understand why these security measures are in place. Instead of trying to find ways to circumvent these procedures they should show us that they understand the situation, caused by their homeland terrorists and accept the scrutiny just like the rest of us. Until then, why should we respect them and how can we expect the youth to respect them. Disrespect for our ways will lead to trouble eventually because political correctness is a fickle thing that changes with the whims of the wind and time. One minute we go along and the next... well you know.

Once Muslims show Canadians and Americans respect for the ways of these countries, then we can show them the same respect they would like. This will only happen when they get the strength of moral character to realize that religion is there for the people and that people are not there for religion. Using religious prejudices to accommodate getting around our ways is the wrong way, it will eventually backfire and the religious wars to come will not be pretty. Man has always fought for survival of there ways and unfortunately there will be a winner and a loser and the loser is usually the one with its head in the sand hiding from the reality of things. It's up to you to be an ostrich or to stand up for your way of life.

Sunday March 07, 2010
heh! heh!

Sunday March 07, 2010
Oscars!!

Hey did I say this before? Well it's worth repeating...Best piicture...AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR. Tonight we will no for sure.

Sunday March 07, 2010
NO LIQUOR...NO LIQUOR!!

As per usual, those handy dandy li'l ol' activist Muslims are at it again.

Over in India the other day Muslims gathered in the streets pushing for a ban on liquor. They abused stores, smashed liquor bottles on the street, poured out the good stuff and chanted. You see, it seems that since Islam says, drink no alcohol, then their rules should apply to all religions.

The Islamic agenda is not always shown in big ways, but oft times it rears its ugly head in those small, seemingly insignificant ways. Politically correct people say, well they have the right to protest and that legitimizes the action but they don't look further down the line. Like Hitler who slowly and insidiously spread his ideas of hate over Germany, Muslims slowly but insidiously use our own democratic beliefs against the rest of the world. Like Prime Minister Chamberlain and the others, they legitimized Hitler’s movement by pretending to ignore the reality of the situation, until it was too late and the crap hit the fan. Politically correct citizens and vote seeking politicians publicly pretend that this threat to the world doesn't really exist; it is only in the hands of some extremists. One day the crap will hit the fan again, and we will wonder why everything happened and why politicians weren’t aware of the real threat. It will be too late.

This threat is not new in the least. When Christianity was rising to power they did things to turn the hearts and minds of the so called pagans and other religions of the time. I am sure that he Romans at the time had its soothsayers that tried to warn the public of the insidious Christian threat to their way of life and it still came anyway. Of course, the Christian religion had a positive spin on things. They didn't use outward force; they preached love and respect for fellow men. Something that most citizens of the world aspire to. They didn't go out and bomb people and blow themselves up...BUT...wait for it...they did commit suicide in a way by not fighting their enemies. They willingly sacrificed themselves in the arenas, to lions and tigers and bears, oh my. They did this for their faith and their love of God. Sound familiar, doesn't it. The only difference really between the peaceful Christian way to die and the Muslim violent way to die is just in the belief structure of the religion. The question to ask yourself is, which is the better way you want. Natural evolution of the species may very well dictate in this century and the next which religious structure will survive as the major world religion.

Sometimes when I ruminate on the fantasy part of my id, I start to accept the fact that nature sees a potential threat that may affect it and begins the process to prepare its defense for survival. Therefore the way I see it, all you politically correct idiots out there may not know it but you may be instruments of nature’s defense plan. Since Islam as it is in the Koran, is a warrior like religion (and no one could ever change my mind on this), they may be better suited to take on an intergalactic invasion that is coming and could destroy the Earth. Nature would know that it needs warriors willing to sacrifice themselves on mass for their belief and survival and so they could ward off an invasion force from the stars by sheer force of life sacrifice. Like that scenario.

Hey, you may think I'm losing the old nut (which I probably am), but at least it makes politically correct idiots, not so idiotic and they are really the important soldiers of the necessary world order change. Okay if you P.C. idiots go along with this you definitely have a screw loose.

Is it time for a world order change? Possibly it is and we may not be able to stop the force majeure that is approaching but we don't have to go the way of the Romans and other pagans without at least a little bit of resistance to our own demise. I don't think that rolling over and dying is really an option, at least without a little bit of a fight. Unfortunately, if we continue on this path we are on at this time, we as a Christian race will eventually be eliminated or reduced to a bare minimum; we will be of no importance to the world regime. True democracy will disappear, even though Islam pretends to want to go in that direction. They probably do want to drift toards democracy (see Iran) but theologians of the religion will eventually beat that idea from the head of Muslims. For the thousands of years to come the world will change until the day that someone begins a new movement and Islam gets replaced by the new young upstart in the religious race for world dominance.

Do I believe this to be true? Yes unfortunately, I do. We can change this situation of course but it needs people to fight for what they believe in and want to keep. Do nothing and Hitler’s war machine of the last century, will seem like a childs pretend battle compared to what is to come. Peace in the decades to come is not an option. You choose. You choose not for yourselves, but for you children, your grandchildren and your great grand children. What do you want for them? Is appeasement the right option or like some countries already do, we endeavour to do something to stem the rising tidal wave of radical change to the world order. At this time hardly any country is left unaffected by the Islamic tidal wave. This wave will have to be blocked or its unchecked power will cover the world with "THE ONE TRUE RELIGION".

Tuesday March 02, 2010
14 Gold..History

GOLD!!!

Great Olympics wasn't it. 14 GOLD...world record...we rock...Canada great...okay so the athletes were great. The rest of us were great at sitting with beer, wings, chips and sofas.

I certainly think we are all proud. Great work people all the money spent was worth it.

...And this is from NBC News about the Olympics.

  A thank you note to Canada from NBC News Anchor/Managing Editor Brian Williams

 After tonight's broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we're

Going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to

Do laundry well into next week.

 Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leaving behind a thank-you note.

 Thank you, Canada:

 For being such good hosts.

 For your unfailing courtesy.

 For your (mostly) beautiful weather.

 For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.

For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.

For your unique TV commercials -- for companies like Tim Hortons -- which made us laugh and cry.

 For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.

 For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games -- you've made wearing your name a cool thing to do.

 For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.

 For not honking your horns. I didn't hear one car horn in 15 days -- which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Academy Award Night on Sunday

AVATAR! AVATAR!  AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR! AVATAR!

best picture...yeah!!! Come on people if you haven't seen this film yet go before the Oscars on Sunday.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Malaysia is a situation to be monitored

Want to know what happens to a country when a Muslim minority becomes a majority? Well, look no further than Malaysia. Since it got its independence from Britain after the World War II the country went from hundreds of Muslims to becoming a Muslim majority in 60 years and now the problems are beginning with intensity. Here are some articles to give you the 411.

Vijay Joshi, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Canadian Press, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Religious tensions in Muslim-majority Malaysia have turned violent with firebomb attacks on three churches following a court decision that allows Christians to translate God as Allah.

"Allah is only for us," said a poster waved at one of at least two protests outside mosques in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, the Muslim holy day, hours after the churches were attacked.

Many Muslims are angry about a Dec. 31 High Court decision overturning a government ban on Roman Catholics using "Allah" for God in the Malay-language edition of their main newspaper, the Herald.

The ruling also applies to the ban's broader applications, such as Malay-language Bibles, 10,000 copies of which were recently seized by authorities because they translated God as Allah.

"We will not allow the word Allah to be inscribed in your churches," a speaker shouted over a loudspeaker at the Kampung Bahru mosque.

The Herald says its Malay edition is read mainly by Christian indigenous tribes in the remote states of Sabah and Sarawak, who speak a variety of languages but pray mostly in Malay.

But the government contends that making Allah synonymous with God may confuse Muslims and mislead them into converting to Christianity, a punishable offence in Malaysia despite a constitution that guarantees freedom of religion.

About 9 per cent of Malaysia's 28 million people are Christian, including 800,000 Catholics, most of whom are ethnic Chinese or Indian. Muslims comprise 60 per cent and most of them are Malays.

Minorities have long complained of discrimination. The government refuses to allow construction of new churches and temples, court verdicts in religious disputes usually favour Muslims, and an array of laws guarantee preferential treatment for Malays in jobs, housing and education.

"The distrust has always been there but now the minorities in Malaysia feel that they are under siege," said James Chin, who teaches political science at the Monash University in Malaysia.

The Allah ban is unusual in the Muslim world. The Arabic word is commonly used by Christians to describe God in such countries as Egypt and Syria. The confiscated Bibles came from neighbouring Indonesia, an overwhelmingly Muslim country.

"It shows Malaysia to be a backward, pagan state because God teaches freedom for everyone, and the word 'Allah' is for everyone," he said.

Since the court ruling, hateful comments and threats against Christians have been posted widely on the Internet, but the attacks in suburban Kuala Lumpur mark the first time that the Allah controversy has resulted in vandalism.

In the worst incident, the ground-floor office of the three-story Metro Tabernacle Church was gutted by a firebomb thrown by attackers on motorcycles, police said. The upstairs worship halls were undamaged.

Two other churches were attacked hours later, one suffering minor damage while the other was undamaged.

At least one other church cancelled its Friday service and locked its doors, fearing an attack.

"We never know what might happen because the situation is so tense," said the Rev. Father Paulino Miranda of the Church of Divine Mercy in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state.

Julia Zappei, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Canadian Press, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Vandals threw stones at a Sikh temple, adding to religious tensions over a string of attacks on churches in this Muslim-majority country, police said Wednesday.

The church attacks - since Friday eight have been hit with firebombs and one with paint - came after a court overturned a government ban and allowed a Catholic newspaper, the Herald, to use the word "Allah" to refer to God. Some of the Sikh scriptures also use the world "Allah," but that is a little-known fact outside the community.

Some 20 small stones were thrown into the compound of a gurdwara, or Sikh temple, late Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur's Sentul neighbourhood, district police chief Zakaria Pagan told The Associated Press.

He said only a mirror in the front portion of the temple, which is more than 100 years old, was damaged and there were no injuries.

The Muslim-dominated government argues "Allah" is exclusive to Islam and forbids non-Muslims from using it. The Arabic word, which predates Islam, is routinely used by Christians in other Muslim countries such as Egypt, Syria and Indonesia.

The Malaysian government ban is over the use of "Allah" only in published material and not in everyday verbal use by the country's various ethnic minorities, who form about 40 per cent of the country's 28 million people.

Julia Zappei, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Canadian Press, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A decision by Malaysian customs officials to seize 32 Bibles from a traveller is adding to complains that the Muslim-majority country is becoming less tolerant of other religions.

Custom officials at an airport in Kuala Lumpur took the Bibles from a Malaysian woman Jan. 28 on her return from the Philippines.

Rev. Hermen Shastri, general secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia, says she was carrying the Bibles for a study group.

The woman was told that all religious materials had to be sent to the Internal Security Ministry's publications control unit for clearance.

About 60 per cent of Malaysia's 27 million people are Muslim Malays, who have generally lived peacefully with Christians, Buddhists and Hindus in the minority Chinese and Indians communities.

But Shastri said Monday that the situation in Malaysia has been going from bad to worse.

"This either points to a concerted effort to undermine the current practice of religious tolerance, or the religious enforcement authorities have been given a free hand and they are having a field day," he said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Minorities in Malaysia have become increasingly worried that their constitutionally guaranteed right to worship is being gradually eroded.

Customs department spokesman Iskandar Jaafar denied the Bibles were confiscated because of religious intolerance.

"It's the normal procedure" to check if so many books were being imported for commercial purposes, Jaafar said, adding that the Bibles had been sent to the Internal Security Ministry for vetting.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Canadian Press, 2008

Julia Zappei, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Canadian Press, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An Avril Lavigne concert scheduled for later this month in Malaysia has been cancelled amid complaints that the show by the Canadian rock singer is "too sexy."

The Arts, Culture and Heritage Ministry says it had decided not to permit Lavigne's planned Aug. 29 performance because it is unsuitable for Malaysian culture.

The decision came after complaints by the youth wing of a fundamentalist opposition party, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic party.

Okay, that's enough, you get the point.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's top Islamic body has ruled against Muslims practising yoga.

In its non-binding edict, Malaysia's National Fatwa Council says yoga has elements of Hindu religion that could corrupt Muslims. Council chairman Abdul Shukor Husin says yoga involves not just physical exercise but also includes spiritual elements.

Though the council's decisions are not legally binding on Malaysia's Muslim population, many nevertheless abide by the rulings.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Why Economic Dominance Is Shifting From the West to the East

While European and American government debt is a growing concern spiraling out of control, Asia’s economy remains remarkably resilient. China is repaying what little debt it owes while handing out credit to countries like the U.S. which has record budget deficits. Once the U.S. decides to get out of the business of world politics and acting as the world’s police department it may stop bleeding money.

Most Asian countries though hard pressed during these tough economic times still managed , except for Japan that is linked to closely to the United States. Asian countries have been more conservative in their spending and borrowing. As long as Europe and the United States takes to confront their overspending the higher and more rapid Asia’s rise will be. It is certainly time for North America and Europe to stop their spending on toys and gadgets and spend on items necessary for everyday living. How many types of television sets do we need, how many different I pods et cetra, et cetra. We owe so much money that we will never get out from under and Asia will be more than willing to keep us there. We need to rethink our credit card system and our spending in other countries. We need to start companies producing product in Canada and the United States and stopping the export of our manufacturing to Asian sweat shops. If we don’t do this we will become a Third World country working for pennies. It’s happened to other countries in the past so don’t think it will never happen here. Fix it now or pay for it later.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Ever wondered just how big Walmart really is?

Walmart could be a country unto itself. It runs pretty efficiently, takes money from the people and gives back very little. Their stuff is mostly Chinese crap but they have good prices on medications. We hate them but we patronize their stores. On their side I believe that if enough people tell tehm they want better product they will get it. So here is some information for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2009.

Walmart's worldwide sales topped $401 billion.

*That's close to $46 million each and every hour of every day.

*That's more than the gross domestic product of Taiwan, Greece and Denmark, and double that of Romania.

*Walmart discloses its operating margin at 5.8 per cent, which totals a profit of $44,250 every minute.

*Walmart's U.S. sales tops Home Depot, Kroger, Target, Sears, Costco and K-Mart combined.

*If Walmart continues to grow at its current rate, revenues will be $3 trillion by 2020, as much as economies of France and Britain combined, and it will employ 8.2 million people.

*Walmart is already the biggest private employer in the U.S.

*Walmart develops more real estate, consumes more energy than any other American company.

*How's this for diversity? Walmart sells more dog food, disposable diapers, guns, toothpaste, CDs and diamonds than any other retailer.

*It's estimated that one-third of American shoppers visit Walmart once a week.

*In a little over a decade, the retailer went from selling no groceries to being America's No. 1 grocer.

*Industry estimates suggest that 70 per cent of merchandise has left the store before Walmart has paid its suppliers for it.

So, see why I said that Walmart can be a small country unto itself. Someday it might rule the world. Hell, if they could into the Middle East countries they would probably single handedly stop terrorism and change the mores of the people all by itself. Go for it Walmart, you seel crap but you can change the world.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
A Muslim asks: When does this stop?

Another article that portends a ray of hope. At least some voices of reason are out there.

Javid Mirza
The Hamilton Spectator
(Dec 5, 2009)

I received a call this morning (as I write this on Friday) from a friend asking if I saw the news about the mosque bombing in Pakistan. I was still in bed so had not read anything. (The attack yesterday in Rawalpindi killed at least 37 people and injured at least 86.)

While I was lying in bed I started thinking, "Why is this happening and when is it going to stop?"

For the past several years, almost every time I see or read about terrorist attacks, it is always someone or some group with a Muslim name or claiming to have affiliation with some sort of Muslim organization.

What the hell? The Islam that I, along with everyone else, practise has always condemned attacks on civilians and on religious institutions -- regardless of the denomination. Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) stated that if a person or persons kills someone innocent it is as if they have killed all of humanity.

Even in time of war we Muslims have been told to protect civilians, clergy, women, children, elders. We are not even supposed to cut down trees or hurt animals. So why am I seeing what I am seeing every day about bombings, suicide attacks etc.? This is not Jihad as some of these animals claim.

I am sorry I wrote animals; not even animals would do this.

Jihad means to better one's inner self, to strive for good in society, to do what Allah/God (all mighty) has commanded us human beings to do.

The bombings and killings are not Jihad. It is cold-blooded murder.

It is time to stop all this and like-minded people throughout the world have to speak and take actions to fix this world -- especially Muslims.

It is killing me every day to read about these incidents. It makes me so angry that these groups and individuals are using the name of my religion to justify all this.

I cannot take it anymore; it is my responsibility to tell these people this is Haram (forbidden) in any religion, let alone Islam. Islam means Peace, so where is the Peace in all this? People teaching other people to commit these murderous acts will go to Hell with the people who commit these acts.

It is time now for Muslim leaders and clergy to have a hard look at what is going on in our communities. We need to teach and educate these misguided people the true meaning of Islam.

Enough is enough. We have to stop blaming others for the problems we have in Muslim countries. We have to accept some of the blame and make things right. Until we accept some responsibility for this we are never going to fix this problem.

This is not Islam, this is not the Islam I have been taught and practise.

Even now in Pakistan and other countries -- and even in Hamilton -- some believe this is part of a conspiracy by other countries to harm Islam. Well, brother and sisters, let's not blame others. Let's take a hard look in the mirror and teach the kinder gentler side of Islam to everyone.

The Islam taught by Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) tells people to show justice, mercy and respect to others. We need to revisit HIS traditions and follow them. Many in Muslim countries are still following interpretations from imams and scholars written 1,000 years ago. Now is the time to review all of these interpretations and use what fits today's society. The great scholars in the past said things that were meant for those times -- not for these times.

Again Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) has stated numerous times that a Fatwa (religious decree) is only good for that certain time and location. Every time and location has different circumstances. In my old country there are madressas (religious schools) on every corner where kids are learning all this hate.

The governments of Pakistan and other countries have to look at the education system and radically change the system so people can get secular education as well as religious education.

When the issue of the Danish cartoons (of the Prophet Mohammed Peace be upon him) appeared, there was an uproar all over the Muslim world. Today, we see an issue of minarets in Switzerland. These are important issues but killings of innocents are what we need to protest about. We need to be loud and clear that others cannot do this in the name of our religion. We Muslims have to take the responsibility and take actions where we can fix this menace.

When my family first arrived to Hamilton in the early 1970s, my father made it a point for us to know our neighbours and be part of the Greater Hamilton society. That is what is needed now all over the world. After all we are all the same.

Please stop with the conspiracy theories; let's take actions where we can save humanity -- which includes ourselves.

Credit must be given to the local imams, and those elsewhere, who are speaking against this every so often. We need to do more, we need to change the mindset of many in our community and once again look at ourselves and see how we can fix this problem.

I truly do believe this problem can only be solved through our own Islam community, not from others who are not Muslim. No bombings or wars will solve this problem. It is only dialogue and education that can get rid of this menace. I am a proud Muslim and being proud also bring responsibility to speak out against these crimes against Humanity.

Makes sense to me. I have nothing else to say except more Muslims need to speak up and fight for what they really want now that they are in Canada. After all they came here to get away from the crap going on in the Middle East, why bring it here?

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Democratic inspiration

From an article in The Hamilton Spectator. I am leaving it as is because it speaks for itself.  Rays of hope in our world. It's great to see something like this.

Evo Morales and Malalai Joya

Although they were born thousands of miles apart, these two people embody what real democracy can mean. When Evo Morales was a child, the indigenous peoples of Bolivia weren't even allowed to set foot in the capital's central square, which was reserved for white people. Today, he is the president, and for the first time in his country's history, he is diverting the billions raised from the country's natural resources away from the pockets of American corporations. Schools and hospitals are being built and poverty is being eradicated in a burst of progress.

Malalai Joya is the youngest woman ever to be elected in Afghanistan, and she was swiftly banned from taking her seat because she kept speaking up for the people who elected her -- against the violent fundamentalist warlords our governments have put in charge of the country. They keep trying to murder her, but she says: "I don't fear death, I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice ... I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring."

She and Morales are authentic democrats, in contrast to the parody of it offered by Hamid Karzai and -- too often our own leaders.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Thank God, there some free thinkers out there

In Toronto a group, The Muslim Canadian Congress, called for the government to ban the medieval and misogynist symbols of Muslim extremism with no basis in Islam. This group wants the government to prohibit the two garments in order to prevent women from hiding their faces in public. They say that this practice has no place in a society that supports gender equality.

"To cover your face is to conceal your identity" said spokesperson Farzana Hassan. This is an issue of public safety since in our culture only criminals use the common practice of hiding their identity. They insist that the coverings are only Middle East culture rather than Islamic faith. They insist that none of this is in the any Islamic text or the Koran.

They have said that considering that a woman is not allowed to wear a burka in the grand mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, so why would it make sense that this practice would be allowed in Canada.

They request the ban of the burka, as well as the niqab that only leaves the eyes exposed. They are not requesting the ban to include the hijab, the head covering.

Nice to see there are some Muslims out there that care for themselves and their rights. Bravo!!!

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Islamic Bigotry

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Dresses made from crab leftovers

I read this nice article that shows that when ingenious minds set their goals to recycling then can do it.

In Copenhagen a runway show went on that promoted "green styles". Some of the clothes were stitched from recycled agricultural and industrial waste. Some of the clothes were made from recycled water bottles. Then, there is Crabion, a bi-product from the crab industry. Ingeo is made from corn scraps that can be made to mimic the smoothness of silk fibers and the glossy sheen of PVC. There is Milkfiber which is made from milled milk, which is the powder left over from boiled milk. See when we put our heads together we can be ingenious and inventive

Tuesday March 02, 2010
No separation of state and religion??

Quite often a Hamilton Spectator reader by the name of Paul Kokoski has written many letters to the editor about religion. I remember Paul's family from our high school days and he was never as religiously fanatical as he is today. His attitude bothers me because it is the same attitude lots of Christians have that make them no different than Muslim extremists. Mind you I doubt most of these religious zealots will go out and commit suicide bombings or blow up planes. They do show that religious zealots exist in every religion which as usual to my way of thinking confirms that religion is quite possible the root of most wars and racism.

Paul commented in one letter about something that bothered me that politicians can not serve two masters. They either follow their religious beliefs or they follow their political beliefs.

He commented that it was correct of Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin for barring pro-choice U.S Representative Patrick Kennedy from receiving Holy Communion. Since he is pro-choice on abortion, the writer believes it is correct hat he be banned from receiving communion. What a crock of sh#t that is. He probably believes like that I do that abortion is not right but a woman should make up her own mind on this issue. Look when men can have children then we can have a say, until then let men stay out of this issue. Listen Paul, since you are extremely religious; please try to remember that if God did not wish us to have knowledge of such things as abortion we would never had learned how to do it. Since religious people believe that all knowledge flows from God then why would you believe God did not give us the knowledge for his purpose? I believe that the best thing that can happen to a human being is to die and go into the hands of God, so abortions are just his way of calling back those whom he loves. Understand that though I may believe this, I still disagree with abortion but I am pro-choice as you should be and the Church should be. Then again we could all be wrong because we haven't really have a clue what God wants...we only have the words written by men top tell us what God wants. When our time comes we will find out the reality of it all.

Oh by the way Paul, you quoted that in Matthew it says men can not serve two masters. Well I do believe Jesus Christ trumped you on that one when he said to render onto Caesar that which is Caesars and to God what is God's. Sounds to me like Christ believed in the ability of mankind to serve two masters... I guess that triumphs your quote doesn't it?

Tuesday March 02, 2010
No clothes in the pool, please!!!

France is at it again. Love the French...at least they still have some balls.

A new debate has started in France over the use of  public swimming pools by Muslim women. The 'burquini' has started the new debate. A Muslim woman has begun this new debate because she wore her new 'burquini' in a public pool. The suite covers her from head to toe. Unfortunately this suit goes against France's pool hygiene standards and they insist this is not hostility towards Muslim garb. Even non-Muslims would not be allowed to do this. Under this policy NO ONE is allowed in pools with any form of baggy clothing including surfer style shorts. Only figure hugging suits are permitted.

Carole, the recent convert ot Muslim thought this attire would conform to Islamic dogma and allow her to go swimming. She says this is segregation. How she can say that is beyond me. No one is keeping her out, she just has to follow the rules that are there for everyone.

The issue of religious attire is a hot issue in France and the head to toe burquas are in oficial disfavour. France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe of over 5 million. It is the second largest religion after Roman Catholicism. This number within a few years will grow putting the Catholic religion in  second place. They are doing this by sheer population growth.

France's President Nicholas Sarkozy is a conservative that backs all the moves France has made to ban or restrict the binding attire of Muslims. He rightly believes that this type of garb makes women prisoners. The french hav ehte right idea of asking why would they want to regress to times past where women were treated as property to be used for making babies and for sex. Women have fought for centuries to be free and have equal rights with men and now this 'idiotic' 'backward" religion wants women to go back to the medival days. Come on. Somehow it seems many Muslim women and men have it in their heads that Westerners are sexist pigs who are just drooling at the idea of seeing the Muslim body undressed. Yup, right, we are just drooling to see what we have seen for years. Then again once a person become Muslim their bodies become somehow so holy that the image of their uncovered bodies will drive Western men to such distraction that we will go gaga over them. UHUH!! Right...dream on.

Hey they can still wear the 'burquini' in hte ocean or lakes, so they should not complain too much. Oh, and just to set the record straight would Muslim men stay away from public beaches and pools because I really find it offensive that they can oogle non-Muslim women to their hearts content. They should adhere to their own dogma and not look on other undressed women. Then again since most see Western men and women as infidels who are not deserving of respect, I assume they are looking on in disgust, correct???

Tuesday March 02, 2010
We are being warned about the Muslim immigration

It would seem that the Harper government may have received an answer they may not like. Gerard Latulippe was chosen to lead the Rights and Democracy organization. This group has come out with a public warning about threats posed by Muslim immigration. He has stated that more immigrants from Muslim countries is seriously undermining the  proper functioning of Quebec society. He feels this situation will lead to more domestic terrorism. Is he right? Well, is the Pope Catholic?

Unfortunately we will find out sooner than we would like.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
WOW!!! A Primer For Terrorist Courtesy of Muslim Iman???

Here is an article printed in the Hamilton Spectator; written by Dr. Yahya Fadlalla a Hamilton based iman. This writer is also a computer scientist and an expert in counter cyberterrorism. His article is extreme informative to the reader about the capabilities of Muslim terrorists and also a very good primer on what terrorists can do to cause more havok. Fear not, though, his solution is simple at the end. I will comment on it after you read the article.

Yahya Fadlalla
The Hamilton Spectator
(Feb 4, 2010)

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's father called the American embassy in Nigeria, twice, to warn them that his son was being radicalized, and that there might be a planned attack against the U.S. But the "Christmas bomber" got on board the Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight anyway.

Eight years after 9/11, one would think that U.S. intelligence, armed with a $49.8-billion budget, state-of-the-art technologies and millions of "intelligent" employees, would at least have prevented Abdulmutallab from boarding the plane.

The White House announced about a dozen changes designed as a fix. The fact that no single technology can address every security risk seems to be the missing piece, among many others, in President Barack Obama's security measures.

The smart people-screening (SPO) system claims to identify potential security threats concealed in the human body. It isn't a checkpoint security system. Tests already demonstrated that scanners, including the so-called sophisticated SPO, didn't and would never detect PETN (a powerful plastic explosive), the substance Abdulmutallab allegedly sewed to his underwear. Perhaps the SPO would have noticed the syringe, but certainly nothing else.

The intelligence community continue to make mistakes by calling this incident a failed terrorist attack. The alleged bomber didn't fail at all -- governments and the public became, if possible, even more terrified. This is a success for those who planned the alleged attack.

Terrorists seem to be fascinated with the aviation industry, but this doesn't mean we should limit our security measures around airports and planes. Terrorists are similar to computer hackers: You cover them in one area and they'll certainly pop up in another.

As a counterterrorism expert, I'm especially worried about the check-in lines at airports. If there was one attack vector that I would expect to get utilized sooner than later, it would be a co-ordinated attack on an airport entrance hall. No security to clear, and having suitcases is expected. Pack a number of those and have them synchronized to detonate at the same time in a major (or multiple) airport(s), and one would accomplish just as much as taking a plane down -- if not worse.

And I'm not going to mention denture devices, pacemakers and buttocks bomb detonators, to name a few.

For Canada to become a target for terrorists is not a matter of if, but when. The perceived likelihood of attack on Canada is linked closely to Canadian foreign policy, and the extent to which Ottawa supports the military efforts of the U.S.

Security debates seem to focus only on air travel. Alternate ideas appear not to be discussed.

Public transportation systems, particularly subways, are a potential target. They're easy to attack. Such a crime would succeed in mass deaths and fear. The attacks on commuter systems in London and Madrid serve as reminders.

Cyberterrorism is becoming more attractive to terrorists. They seem to possess competency using new information technologies. In 2003 I authored a paper, Terrorism: Keyboard vs. Bomb for a security conference held at West Point, the U.S. Army college. I discussed the possibility of terrorists launching a cyberattack and penetrating an air-traffic control system causing planes to collide with each other.

We'll always be vulnerable. We have to recognize that and learn to live with it. We, Muslims and non-Muslims, do have a role to play. We shouldn't let any radicalization or extreme views escape our attention.

Otherwise, we'll probably end up with a system that requires us to ship our bags to the airport, say a week in advance, and then change into disposable reinforced-paper suits that we must wear between airports. Who thought that one day we'd have to take off our shoes at airports? That's thanks to the "shoe bomber."

There is always the issue of profiling certain groups at airports and elsewhere. Many Muslims adamantly reject the idea. Security, including that of Muslims, must come first. But, from among us Muslims are those who profile other Muslims: "That's a Sunni, another's a Shia, a third is a Wahhabi, and there's the Sufi."

I pity those so-called Muslim leaders who profile others in an attempt to seemingly alienate them from the community.

Profiling a certain group can be avoided as much as possible at airports and elsewhere, not because it's inconvenient to that group, but because it just doesn't fit the multicultural society for which Canada is praised, famous and proud.

Former head of CSIS James Judd said racial profiling is "fundamentally stupid." Lest we forget the "Oklahoma bomber," Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people; he wasn't a Muslim or an Arab. Michael Chertoff, former U.S. secretary of homeland security, called profiling: "not terribly effective."

U.S. Congressman Ron Paul has suggested an embedded solution to terrorism: "They're terrorists because we're occupiers ... We've made them terrorist."

Maybe if U.S. troops and their partners leave Muslim-occupied lands, then and only then will we have a newscast that doesn't include the term "Muslim terrorist."

Maybe if Obama takes Paul's words to heart, and the message gets to Stephen Harper too, billions of hard-earned taxpayers' dollars spent on moving troops to different parts of the Muslim world and security measures at airports and elsewhere will be saved.

Unless the White House and its allies, including Canada, change their foreign policy pertaining to Muslim-occupied lands, inventing novel ways of attacking the West will continue. The catch-me-if-you-can game appears to be on with folks who love death as much as we love life. So, buckle up and get ready for the action.

So what did you think?

I havew to agree on most of his points though I could have done without all the suggestions he made for possible targets. He did acknowledge that even failed attempts at destruction score points for the terrorists because we are made afraid anew each time it happens. His comments that these attacks will eventually come to Canada is spot on. We have just been lucky so far.

He is absolutely correct on the idea that we should not be involved in anything that happens in the Middle Eastern Muslim countries. We should let them fight their own wars and kill each other until they get their sh$t together and feel it's time to join the 21st Century. At least Dubai has made a half assed attempt at it. We do not belong in their internal affairs. We are only their to protect oil interests. The smartest thing for the West and Europe to do now is get out and never go back. We should also eliminate all immigration from Middle Eastern countries and other Muslim countries. They don't want us there, as Dr. Fadlalla has made perfectly clear, so why should we welcome them, so they can spread a fight and convert idealogy on us.

Here is a well written response to the article from a Spectator reader...

D.J. Fisher
The Hamilton Spectator
Burlington

Re: 'Terrorism: What comes next?' (Feb. 4)

This article implies that unless the West changes its foreign policy pertaining to Muslim-occupied lands, terrorism will continue.

Does writer Yahya Fadlalla truly believe the Islamists would halt their terrorism upon withdrawal of NATO forces from Muslim countries?

He appears to be too intelligent to adopt this stance.

Nowhere in his article does he refer to the Islamist vow to convert the Western infidels. Nothing will deter them from that objective.

The presence of NATO in their countries is just fodder which they cultivate to garner support for their radical aims.

Even before the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, radical views were being preached throughout the West. Thus, occupation of Muslim countries cannot be used as a pretext for terrorism.

I do agree with Fadlalla that efforts to combat terrorism should not be limited to air travel. All areas of public involvement can be targets of dedicated radicals, such as water and food supply, sports, schools -- wherever damage can be most effective will attract them.

Long after NATO's withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, this terrorism will continue to be discussed since the perpetrators' determination may override the many conflicting viewpoints, in the West, on how best to answer it.

The enemy is united. The West is not.

His last line is right on, isn't it?

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Muslims and Body Scanners

If this wasn't so ludicrous, I would burst out laughing until I split a gut.

I can not believe that the very people who have caused airports to use full body scanners want to be exempt from them. This has got to be the most ignorant thing I have heard in a while. Really are they serious?

Muslim-American groups are supporting a fatwa (a religious ruling) that forbids Muslims from going through the body scanners in airports. The Fiqh Council of North America (a body of Islamic scholars) issued this fatwa. They state that going through the scanners would violate Islamic rules on modesty.

"It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men and women be seen naked by other men and women"

"Islam highly emphasizes modesty and considers it part of faith. The Quran has commanded the believers, both men and women to cover their private parts."

Once again Muslims set themselves up against the rules that are for everyone. For goodness sakes the only reason we have these stupid things in the first place is because of them. I would like to see someone disagree with this one. If Muslims didn't blow up planes then we wouldn't have to have these intrusive scanners. Do Muslims believe we relish the idea of going through these scanners? Of course we don't, but we will for the sake of security. So they should be forced to do likewise. I may be criticized for saying this, but I will anyway. If you refuse to abide by the rules of security then don't fly or better yet go back to the Middle East or to other countries that don't have these scanners. I am sick and tired of having harsher security measures imposed on us because of Islamic shinanigans and we are supposed to be understanding of their religious situation. BULLSHIT!!!!

Hey I'm sure the Catholic religion and the Mormons and the Anglicans are not for having other people seeing you naked on a scanner but this isn't about religion, this is about security and not being blown out of the sky when I go off to Mexico or some other place. I can not believe that this will be allowed. Government and airport security should not make exceptions because if they do then everyone should request body patting that way when the air traffic schedules go out the window then maybe they'll say to Muslims.. "follow the countries security rules or go somewhere where you don't have to follow our laws."

 I am getting sick and tired of them and people who keep telling me I should be tolerant of other religions and not be a racist. Well, I am not a racist, I just dislike a religion that tries to manipulate rules that all have to abide by. Then again I figure most religions are the root of all evil. No religions...no killing in the name of religion, we can kill each other because we....wait is there any other reason to kill. Someone quick give me a war that hasn't started because of some form of religious intolerance? I really need one.

Man am I pissed. You should all be, because people are good and caring in general and only want the best for their families but as soon as you put religion in the mix it all goes out the window. I think I will go out and scream now while you read this letter tot he editor in the Hamilton Spectator...

Billie Farmer
The Hamilton Spectator
Port Dover
(Feb 17, 2010)

Re: 'Islamic leaders in U.S. say body scanners defy modesty rules' (Feb. 12)

Do these people realize they came to our country and they should adapt to our ways, not our country to theirs?

As I read "It is violation of clear Islamic teaching that men or women be seen naked by other men and women," I wondered if these people ever go to a medical doctor. Or what is done if one of them is in an accident. I have never seen nurses and doctors try to cause anyone embarrassment, but they must see the body part that needs healing. So if these people can't walk through a scanner, they should never use our health-care system.

Of course, they must find a way to exempt themselves from the scanner because the illegal things extremists do can only be done if our country is not vigilant.

And if this decree is from other than extremists, these people are shutting their eyes and minds to the fact that their extremists are the reason the scanners are to be used.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
600 Parking Spaces.

Hamilton politicians can be such idiotic, brain cell lacking public servants.

What would ever possess them to even suggest putting in only 600 parking spaces at the new stadium? Do they really believe people are going to take buses and bicycles from the Mountain down to the bay front? Come on now. I ride my bike all over but I would not take my bike to a football game. I would I ride my bike on a rainy day...hahahahbwahhaaaaa!! This has got to be the most ridiculous asinine idea coming from these lunkheads (I hope I don't hurt their feelings). They usually dictate to shopping malls and other businesses how many parking spaces they should have to accommodate customers, but hey, they don't have to abide by their own rules.

Let's rethink this stupid idea people, let's show the voting public that they did not choose unwisely. Get the job done right will you.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Pedestrians and Crossing The Road

You know what you call a pedestrian who really believes he has the right of way to cross the road? A dead pedestrian.

Hey techniquely, the pedestrians are supposed to have the right of way at proper locations. Stepping out in front of a car and crossing on a day with icy roads is not the right time to pronounce your rights. Running out in the middle of

Look cars should watch out for pedestrians and sidewalk walkers should use what little limited intelligence that have and not just walk into traffic. Use common sense and caution. It will keep you out of the hospital. Don't ignore signs and use the lights when possible, but for Heavens sake be careful during bad weather.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Little Mosque On The Prairie.

I enjoy watching this half hour comedy on CBC. I have watched it since it came on the air because it was funny and it made Muslims seem more human and I did not see them in a different light, instead of always seeing dramas and movies where Muslims are always terrorists. I liked the characters and enjoyed the humour until a few weeks ago when in one episode; I believe the writers went too far. Somehow a little religious zeal crept in. The main, Ran (?) female Muslim character says to a friend that she would never convert to Christendom since Islam is the only true religion. I'm not sure why that was allowed in there, it left a sour taste and I did not find it funny. This is the attitude of the Islamic religion. So, tell me how I am supposed to respect Islam. I hope they go back to humour and not religious politics. This not good for the show.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Danny William's Trip Down To The States.

Who cares that Premier Danny Williams went to the States for medical attention. His heart, his choice. He has the money to do this so why should anyone care. He never once mean-mouthed our Canadian Health Care system, so what's the big deal. He did this all on his own dime so all those who wanted a say, criticizing him, shut up.

Our system works, sure sometime it is slow but then again you're not paying for the care either. Hey if you have the money and want to wander off to the U.S.A. to pay for medical attention, paying your own way then no one in Canada should say anything about it. This only leaves more room for those who can not pay for it, to get medical attention sooner.
It is amazing how the American news shows, especially FOX channels like to report on Canadians going to the States for medical treatment. Yet they very rarely if ever report on the number of Americans go into bankruptcy or just plain expire because they could not afford the medical care required. U.S. hypocrisy at work. Let's hope that Obama can get his medical bill passed.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Canadian Passport Is Not A Ticket To kill.

Tuesday March 02, 2010
Ignorant People

Tuesday March 02, 2010
CHIEF OF POLICE AND HIS GUN

I read an article in the Mountain News about the new Chief of Police wearing his gun into a mosque when he went to speak there. The complaint from a reader was that it was inappropriate for him to do so. It showed lack of respect he noted. Well buddy you're full of the merde of the bull. As far as I am concerned if the Chief or any other officer is on duty he should wear his gun no matter where he is.
Considering he was speaking in the mosque because of some almost serious attempt at a bombing; it would make good sense to be armed. His .40 calibre Glock is one of his peace keeping tools and he should be armed with it. It certainly isn't like mosques have been places respected by Taliban bombers so why should he assume that he should go in unarmed while on duty. The writer says the chief should not wear a gun in a place of worship. I bet this reader would be the first one to want the chief carrying his Glock if he was being held by some weapon wielding nut job in some Church.
Look let's be reasonable just because an officer goes into a Church while on duty does not mean he should be unarmed, not in today's climate. Do I like it? No, I don't but then this isn't the old days either.

Around the world attacks are going on in Churches and mosques, it seems that Muslim terrorists really don't give a crap about our Churches, let alone their own. During the week of the failed bombing at the Stone Church Road mosque, a Christian Church was  fire bombed in Malaysia as well as a second attempt at another Church by Muslims and not terrorist ones either. Why? Well, you see Muslims in Malaysia do not want Christians or other non-Muslims to use the word Allah. Understanding lot aren't they?

In Egypt a drive-by shooting took place at a Christian Church. Seven Christians were killed and three injured as they exited Midnight Mass. Egypt is usually safe from this type of thing but this anti-Christian feeling is seeping in from other surrounding countries.
None of us should really contemplate this type of action but can you blame Christians if we have a mistrust issue? We can only hope that maybe these sicko Muslims that carry on these types of attacks might remember that Christ wants everyone to love each other and to turn the other cheek. Since Muslims recognize Christ as a prophet then maybe they should also listen to his words and not just Mohammad (sorry I don't have to say Peace Be Upon Him) because he is nothing to me, just as these urban and militant terrorists see no reason to respect Christians.
Maybe someday the rational Muslim population will stand up to these idiots who mar the Muslim religion and fight them into oblivion and then maybe they will get worldwide respect.

Tuesday January 19, 2010
Google...remember the word PRIVACY???

Would someone tell me who the hell gave Google the right to go around photographing people and homes for their Google Street View (GSV)? I like Google, but really, didn’t they even think at all about how this is intrusive to privacy. It’s bad enough that police spy on us street cameras and spy agencies and governments spy on us with their satellites and GPS systems know where we are at all times. Now some bunch of young nerds who never even heard or read about Big Brother in the novel “1984” feel that people around the world want to see what everyone is doing and where they live. PRIVACY!!!!!

Give us back at least some semblance of privacy.

I was willing to accept Google Earth with its frozen images but this, this is bull crap. This GSV system gives too much information about us to people that we have no control over. Car thieves could figure out where to steal those high end cars from. They can tell when you are home or not. Is your garage door open so thieves can see what you have worth stealing, bicycles, bbq, high end tools et cetra? Can pedophiles see where their next little feast is going to be?

Tuesday January 19, 2010
EGYPTIAN SCHOOLS TO BAN THE FACE VEIL.

I had a hoot when I first read that Egypt’s top Islamic cleric is planning to ban its female students, wearing face veils, from entering its schools. The police were given standing orders to bar any girl with covered faces from entering all schools. This was done for security reasons. Interesting that Muslim’s want to ban something that the USA and Canada haven’t moved on as of this time. I guess they understand better than us how wearing a complete face covering in today’s society is a dangerous thing. Time for our politicians to get their s#*t in gear.

By the way, what was made clear to women who wore the niqab (the face and full body covering) was that the Islamic religion does not require the wearing of this outfit. He made it clear it is only a custom and as such it (at least the face covering) must come off.

Of course critics commented that this possible law would never be implemented.

Well, guess what?

“An Egyptian court upheld a ruling by the education ministry to ban women from wearing the full face veil in university examination halls. The ministry took the decision in October to ban the niqab, a veil covering the entire face usually worn by devout Muslims, for security reasons.

The administrative court's decision, which may still be appealed, came after more than 50 students filed a petition against the ban. The row over the niqab has intensified in recent months after Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's main seat of learning, banned the niqab in all residences and schools affiliated to Al-Azhar.

The only exception made is in classrooms where the teacher is male.

The ministry of health has tried to ban it among nurses and the ministry of religious endowments distributed booklets saying the practice of wearing the niqab has no basis in Islam. Most Muslim women in Egypt cover their hair, but the full face veil is associated with the ultra-conservative Salafi school of thought, which is based mostly in Saudi Arabia, and is gaining popularity in the country.

Salafism has inspired such militants as Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. Most of its practitioners, however, shun politics.”

Well, now let’s see how other countries handle this silly outfit. I have to ask…how many of you out there have the urge to run out of a bank or building when you see someone enter dressed in a niqab? Doesn’t it make you wonder what is under the outfit…like a gun or a bomb? How many of us worry about some guy walking into a bank in a long trench coat or knee length leather overcoat? We always suspect that something is hidden under it. It’s just the way it is…religion really has little to do with it.

Tuesday January 19, 2010
HST...oh yeah

HST, in Ontario. By now it’s really a done deal and no matter what any of us say, nothing is going to stop it. Yes this HST is great for business…been there…easy to understand. The customer, well, they will lose out…they always lose out. Look, do not think that businesses will pass on too much of their savings to the general public. It is hard when they feel that they now have a chance to make up some of their shortfalls. No one I worked for ever did, so I don’t see too much of that happening this time around. More money for the government coffers, which after all still belongs to the citizens… well sort of, I guess. I just wish that they would use some of this extra doh, ray, me to help the health care system.

Tuesday January 19, 2010
Sara Palin...OMG

Sara Palin coming to Hamilton… who real gives a dung beetle? Better yet why in heaven’s name would anyone bring this nut job to Hamilton, let alone Canada? Does anyone really care what she has to say? Besides if you want to hear her now go to her

Fox news show and listen to probably the worst thing that could have happened to the USA. Was the Republican party so hard up that they actually picked this empty headed person (and I use the term loosely) to run for vice-president? Hey here’s a suggestion, why not have the Republican Party get Stephen Harper to run for VP next time, that way we can get rid of him. Maybe he and Mrs. Palin can destroy the USA together, more than it already is. Oops! Wait, the luck stiffs can’t get Mr. Harper down there since he wasn’t born in the States…damn I thought I had found a way to get rid of this loser from up here.

Oh, well I guess they will have to find someone just as useless to run with Mrs. Useless.

By the way can someone explain to me where this woman found death panels in President Osama’s Medical plans??

Another thing, did her book sell? I heard some news about it and then zip. I guess no one gave a flying’ frack about it.

Tuesday January 19, 2010
I'm back again...really!!!

Once again it’s been a while since I wrote anything on the ol’ blog. I've been busy with my life to piss on anyone else’s life. I think that I actual got to lazy to turn on the computer and type anything.

Actually around November I lost my C drive on the computer. I went through the usual routine to get it all up and running with a new hard drive, loaded in most of my junk on the new drive and away I went. Two days later the new drive crapped out (Damn made in Thailand hard drives) on me and away I went again. I had all sorts of problems getting things back on once again. Now I have things coming up that drive me insane. If you use Microsoft, I don’t have to tell you the problems. Well since then I have spent all sorts of time trying to get some things to work the way they did before, so the blog was not high on my list of priorities. Sorry.

I know you like to read my ranting about all sorts of junk; I get the occasional email telling me so.

Well, I beg your forgiveness and I will try to stay more current. So above this message there will be all sorts of catch up entries. Feel free to send your opinions.

Sunday August 09, 2009
Who do we appreciate...CANADA! CANADA!!

This reached me courtesy of buddy Steve...read and enjoy and appreciate yourselves...

David Meadows is a retired US Navy Captain and the author of numerous books and articles on military subjects.

This message was on the U.S. Military.Com website. You will find it quite positive. It appears that Mr. Meadows knows one helluva lot more about what our military is doing than most Canadians. I
trust this message will assist to improve their knowledge.

David Meadows ~ April 27, 2006

On April 22, 2006 four Canadian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb. Respects and heartfelt sadness go to the families of those heroes who stand alongside the U.S. In the Long War half a world away. While we focus on the war in Iraq, the fighting continues in Afghanistan where side-by-side the U.S. and one of its most loyal allies, Canada, engage the re-emergence of the Taliban.

Canada is like a close uncle who constantly argues, badgers, and complains about what you are doing, but when help is truly needed, you can't keep him away: he's right there alongside you. We have a unique relationship with Canada. We have different political positions on many issues, but our unique friendship has weathered world wars, global crises, and the ever-so-often neighborhood disagreement.

Canada has been with us since the beginning of the Global War on Terrorism. In February 2006, without fanfare Canada, leading a multinational force combating growing Taliban insurgency, increased
troop strength in Afghanistan to 2,300. With the American military stretched thin against rising instability in both Iraq and Afghanistan, an ally that increases its troop strength is inspiring and deserves our respect.

Katrina was another example of our close family-like relationship. Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Two days later, the Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue Team rushed from British Columbia, Canada to Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. In this Parish of 68,000 Americans, the first responders were Canadians. Overall, within the devastated Gulf Coast area, it appears Canada was the first responder outside of local efforts. They worked 18-hour days, going door-to-door alongside Louisiana State Troopers, rescuing 119 Americans. While FEMA ramped up to surge into the catastrophe; while the administration and Louisiana fought for the politically correct way to respond; Canadian aid was already at work.


The Canadian Forces Joint Task Group 306 consisting of the warships HMCS Athabaskan, HMCS Toronto, NSMC Ville de Quebec, and CCGC William Alexander sailed to the Gulf Coast to deliver humanitarian supplies. They stayed, working alongside U.S. Navy and Mexican warships, to provide aid to Katrina victims.

Katrina was not an anomaly of our close relationship. When Hurricane Ivan devastated Pensacola, Florida in October 2004 Canadian humanitarian help was there also. Canadian power trucks roamed the streets and countryside helping restore electricity where Americans had a unique experience of running into workmen who only spoke French. Canada took a lot of undeserved flak for failing to leap into Operation Iraqi Freedom when our administration sent us galloping across the desert. But Canada remains one of our staunchest allies in the war.

When United States military forces were fighting up the highways in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Canada quietly increased troop numbers in Afghanistan and continued Naval operations with U.S. Warships in the Persian Gulf.

I was at the Pentagon on 9/11, stationed on the Joint Staff. During the early hours after the attack, the United States closed its air space and ordered every aircraft within our borders to land immediately at the nearest airfield. Canada immediately stood up an Operations Support Post. With civil aviation grounded, aircraft destined for the United States were forced elsewhere. Most landed in Canada.

Re-routed travelers and flight crews were hosted at Canadian Forces facilities in Goose Bay, Gander, and Stephenville, Newfoundland; Halifax, Shearwater, and Aldershot, Nova Scotia; Winnipeg, Manitoba; and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Canada rapidly mobilized its forces. Within hours, the Canadian Navy was on alert with ships preparing to cast off immediately for any U.S. Port to help victims of the 9/11 attacks. Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team prepared to deploy from Trenton, Ontario.

Canada dispersed CF-18 fighter aircraft to strategic locations throughout Canada. No politics. No negotiating. No questions. They were just there. Canada would have fought any adversary that approached the United States that day.

Canada has been such an integral partner with the United States in the Global War on Terrorism that on December 7, 2004 when President Bush awarded the Presidential Unit Citation to Commander Joint Force South for combat success in Afghanistan, he was also recognizing the secretive Canadian Joint Task Force 2 commando counter-terrorism unit.

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded 30 Bronze Star medals for heroism in combat to Canadian Forces personnel. Some of those 30 died  in action. Many of the others were wounded. These Canadians earned this American medal for heroism fighting alongside Americans. When we
recall our own dead heroes, we must remember that these warriors gave their lives not only for Canada, but also for the United States.

Canada is more than a neighbor. It is a close family member with the gumption to disagree with its brother to the south but always be there when disaster strikes and America needs help. For that, I salute you, Canada, and extend my respect for the sacrifices given by members of  the Canadian Forces. What an awesome Country you are Canada!

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Canadians sometimes feel too often that we are some type of second class country when we compare ourselves to the U.S.A.. Well, you can see others think more of us thaen we do of ourselves, sometimes. Be proud of ourselves.

Sunday August 09, 2009
WOW!!! It's been a wile

I'm back sort of. Miss me? I doubt. I only do this blog to vent my frustrations and my opinions to people who really don't care anyway.

Well I had my first of two knee surgeries and I really couldn't be bothered to write anything. It's not that things have not irritated me, it's just that the pain and discomfort of knee replacement really did not inspire me to sit and write. Sitting at a computer was not easy to begin with. Sitting, caused the muscles to tighten so much that I just didn't feel like bitching about anything, or take the time to bitch about anything. Need less to say things are better now.

I want you all to know that I look forward to have the other kneww done, about......as much as getting a hot poker shoved up my back end.

I will try to blog a bit more often, just in case there are at least one or two of you reading these diatribes. Write to you soon.

Saturday April 18, 2009
Susan Boyle blows them away

Everyone is posting this one, so why be different...

Go here to view

Saturday April 18, 2009
This needs no explanation

I just felt that this should be here. It's an interesting NON-SEQUITUR by Wiley to make you think a little bit.

In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War ended in  Europe ended. This message is being sent as a memorial, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, hundreds of thousands of Italians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian Peoples looking the other way!

Now, more than ever, with  Iraq ,  Iran , and others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again. We have to learn from history if not we will be condemned to repeat the mistakes and our children and grandchildren will pay the price. Those who try to tell us that the Holocaust was a myth do so to further their own agendas and they do not want you to believe that it happened because they do not want you to expect it or be prepared for it, when it happens again. Make your thoughts known now or pay for it later.

Saturday April 18, 2009
Marcus Brigstocke humour religious truths

Listen to this...

This funny and seems to tell it like it is when it comes to religion. A good informed commentary.Enjoy!! 

Thursday April 16, 2009
Let's be clear

I know I rant sometimes about the dreadful things Islam is responsible for but it has to be made clear that most of these barbaric acts are perpertrated by illiterate fighters and intelligent Islamic clerics who want to hold on to their power base. The average Muslim in Canada and many other countries really do not want to have anything to do with these morons any more that Christians want anything to do with radical Christians that commit heinous acts in our countries. I know many, personally as most of us do and we can tell they only want a good life and peace...peace to live a happy and safe life in a  country where they don't have to worry about some illiterate asswipe strapping a bomb on to their kids.

Many Muslims in these countries, work and try to promote peace and co-operation  between races and religious ideologies. Everyone of all religions and races have to realize that religion can not rule their lives. Common sense and peace and love have to win out otherwise we will race headlong into a world war that may spell the end of many of us on all sides.

These people who are working hard to promote peace and override religious dogma should be applauded and helped as much as possible.

Thursday April 16, 2009
Afghan rape law???

Sure, I bet you thought I wouldn't comment on that crap going on in Afghanistan with that new law that basically legalizes rape. I know I dropped the ball, what can I say. By know you all should have heard about that moronic, idiotic, barbaric, misogynistic law passed by President Hamid Karzai. It basically legalizes rape.

This was a massive blow for potiential women's rights. The new Shiite Family Law eliminates the need for sexual consent between married couples. It even very tactily approves child marriage and it even goes farther. It seems that the law restricts the woman's right to leave the home without the husbands or a male relatives approval. Can you possibly belief this horsesh!t? CAn you believe that the peoples of  the civilized world even could possibly allow this to happen? 

Canadians, Americans and other peoples from other countries are over in those ridiculous Middle East countries trying to help and prevent killing and trying to show them a better life and this crap pops it's ugly head. What  the hell are we doing over there anyway? What are we fighting for over there? Are we fighting for all the people or for the asinine asshole males that think that they are God's gift to themselves that they allow this stuff to happen? Normally I would think that maybe this wasn;t the case but look what happened  on April 15 when 300 women protested by marching to the Afghanistan parliment to protest. They took every ounce of strength  thay had and risked their lives to show they refused to accept this archaic law.

The 300 marched and over 1,000 men tried to stop it in protest. Riot police backed by counter terrorist officers protected the women from men who tried to stone thse innocent women. They shouted long live Islam and spat on the women. These same men assasinated female policiticians and female police officers. So, tell me that these men just do not love the fact that they can have their own little sex toys at home that have to pull up the skirt and bend over for a quicky any time they want. Seems like a male fantasy come true doesn't it? But...let's face it...it's just such a sick notion isn't it?

This is what Canadian men and women are fighting for. WHat a frackin' waste of good Canadian lives. People it's time that the United Nations started making itself clear, that even though they don't want to dictate to other countries what they can do, they should at least make it clear that they will not waste their people's lives to help them achieve these sicking and morbid agendas. It is time to make it clear that if they persist in these outrageous, inhuman acts that we don't want or need to associate with them and we should make it clear that those ideas are not wanted in our countries and if they even attempt to practice them here that they and their entire clan will be deported back to their countires of origins. Why get involved with this social sickness that their form of so-calle Islam professes. Screw their oil and their figs and whatever else they supply. Let's see them enjoy a life without the ability to export or import and the money it brings. Sure we don't want to bomb them like they do to us but we can at least do our best to isolate this leperous disease they are trying to spread at home and abroad. We don't need this!!!! I don't give a frack how political correct you want to be but it's time to realize that this goes on and we as Christians and Jews and Buddists et cetra do not have to in anyway condon this garbage. We don't have to interfere but we can definitely make our ideas known by using pacificist means. What the heck, they want us out of their backyards anyway. Evenetually the governments will have to do changes or become world pariahs with little or no contact witht he rest of CIVILIZATION.

It is also imperative that host countries which house Islamists that these ideas will not be tolerated...accept it or use the door that boards the ship out of those countries. Oh, and by the way, if I didn't say it already, we should be PROUD and SUPPORTIVE of those brave women who are standing up for themselves.  

One final thing...a quote by Canadian Trooper Karine Blais' uncle. Trooper Blais was the 117th Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan and has just returned home. Commenting on her death after hearing about this new law, he said "I think she did this for absolutely nothing." We should all be in agreement with this statement and do something about it.   'Nuff said!!!!!!

Tuesday April 14, 2009
The Pope and the mouth tape.

I sat in Church a while back and I had to listen to the priest read a letter after Mass. TH eletter was from the Bishop who spouted off about the fact that we have freedom of speech but that the Spectator newspaper editorial cartoon went to far. He says we have freedom of speech and then turns around and says we should chastise the newspaer for running a cartoon where the Pope has a piece of duct tape on his mouth. Hey Church officials...you either have freedom of speech or you don't have it. Freedom to say your 2 cents worth is all or nothing. You can't say it's great we have it and then try to stop others from exercising this right because it is being used against you.
I was so pissed off listening to this that I almost got up and walked out. I couldn't believe that the Church was trying to run a double standard.

Okay, okay they have done it in teh past and will probably continue to do so in teh future, but I still don't have to like it. The Pope says many things that I feel are stupid and ridiculous and if I want to bitch about him I should be able to. His ideas on condoms and aids and abortions are old and not in tune witht he times. Look I've made it clear I do not believe in abortions ecept for special circumstnaces but I don't believe that I as a man have any right to say anything about this. I figure if women didn't want it they would fight against abortions. They really do  not need me or  some unmarried celibate telling them what to do. God gave us a free will to use as we see fit, so unless the Pope is now God I don't believe he has the right to take it away from anyone. He spouts so much religious rhetoric that it starts to fall on deaf years.

Look, I now that he doesn't want Catholics to use birth control and abortion. What pisses me off is that I know that this is being done as a way to survive. The Church knows that it must continue to have Catholics pop out babies to increase the Catholic population. They aren't blind and can see that unless they do something to increase the Catholic population the world will soon become over run by the Islamic baby making religion. That means the Catholic church will lose it's power base and so it needs to do what the Muslims do and force baby making on Christians. They are just trying to do it without threatening to kill us. Let's face it, this is a legitimate concern as Muslims do not practice birth control openly and so their population is multipling  out of control. Religious politics is what it's all about people. People give you more power and more money and more control and the Pope wants the Church to have the largest piece of the pie. Unfortunately fear and threats of excommunication is not the way to it as the West does not repond well to this. So Mr. representative of God, let's get the old act together.

Tuesday April 14, 2009
...and this guy's a father...he needs a forced vasectomy

Can you believe how idiotic some gamblers can be. That moron father from Calgary who left his 21 month old son locked in a car while he went gambling at the casino should be shot and pissed on. This man with the intelligence of a door knob left his kid in the car in minus 8 degree weather without socks or shoes on his feet. He did have the cunning of brainless piece of fungus as he had blankets over the windows so no one could see in the car. Luckily people came to the rescue and this 50 year old mutated piece of feces was arrested and charged with abandonment. Hopefully he will face jail time and not be allowed to go near this boy, now or in the future.

Tuesday April 14, 2009
RCMP and their Tasers

I've stayed away from saying much about all the sh!t around the use of tasers by the RCMP. I was too disgusted to say anything because I would have been really savage about it. What ever happened to the RCMP like Preston of the Yukon and all those brave and heroic RCMP officers who controlled the wild Canadian landscape. The RCMP were a force that people around the world respected. Movies and books touting The Mounties prowese were as numerous as the stars in the sky...or so it seemed. Now all because the big brave Mounties were afraid of a vivious attack from a stapler they have become a laughing stock worldwide. What happened to them? Didn't they ever watch Paul Gross in DUE SOUTH; didn't they realize the symbol they are to Canada and the world. It is a shame to compare these airport idiots with those brave Mounties who died going after their men evil-doers

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Basically the use of Tasers has made the RCMP ans well as other police officers a bit gun happy. They figure "why get any scratches on my body when I  can zap them before they touch me". Poor babies might get a little boo-boo from the nasty staples coming out of that vicious stapler.
Bah!!! I gotta stop now before I really make my real feelings known.

Tuesday April 14, 2009
The Taliban

Sometimes I find it so hard to understand why Muslims let these savage, illiterate, mysgonist killers get away with so much sh!t. The bombing of the Mosque in Pakistan and other places around the world certainly could not possibly endure intelligent and family loving Muslims to their side. These bastards throw acid in children's faces, execute teachers, treat women as nothing more than baby making machines to over populate the globe with more terrorist Islamists that they can use to perform suicide bombings.

A lot more people around the world would have a greater respect for Muslims if they actually got together to wipe out these rabid dogs rather that bowing to them. So many intelligent well educated Muslims who stand up alone to the Taliban end up being executed becuse they have the gonads to say enough is enough. Unfortunately until the general Muslim population decides to stand against these animals as one, they will continue to bully other  family loving Muslim people. Other countries can try to help but until the populations themselves take control of the situation things will never change. The only downside will be that many innocent people will die in this effort to take back their lives and heritage.

Tuesday April 14, 2009
Canada Will Not Be Bullied On Artic Rights

A stand up and cheer goes to Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, who warned Russia that we will not be bullied on Arctic sovereignty.  Super power Russia is forming a new military force to protect what it calls it's interests in the arctic area. Unfortunately, the area is in Canadian territory.
Of course in the past no one gave a crap about the area, but, find oil and boom, everyone wants to own a piece of the snow pie. Well I'm sure if we need protectors in the area we have lots of big brave taser carrying RCMP we can send into to the arctic to show those nasty Russkies where to go. Really, though we have to make sure that we do not take this kind of bullying from other countries who want our resources.

Tuesday April 14, 2009
Banning water bottles

It is nice to see that the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board trustees decided to ban bottled water in schools. By 2010 all the vending machines will no longer contain water. Parents should encourage this by making sure that students take reuseable, refillable bottles to school. I've been doing this for about a year now and I am certainly saving money. I use a Brita filter and then pour the water into my reuseable metal containers and take it on my bike rides, in the car and even to my classes. At home we still have 3/4 of a case of water we bought at the end 2008. We just don't get around to using it except in emergencies.

Students like to push the agenda of protecting the earth, so here is their chance to put it into practice. Let's all cut back on the old plastic.

Tuesday April 14, 2009
Lowl-ife Fox

The Fox Network is hitting an all time low. Unemplyoment is a serious issue and it is hard on thousands upon thousands of people and what does Fox do...it turns misery into a lurid, disgusting reality show. This is really low guys, even for the Fox Network. The series will be called  SOMEONE'S GOTTA GO  and it is now in production. The point of the show is to allow emploees of troubles companies to decide which  other employees are to be laid off.  Each episode will feature a company with 15 to 20 employees that needs to cut costs due to the economy. Rather than the boss deciding the other employees will make the call after they go over all the books that shows everyone's salaries. The laid off will get a small severance.

I don't know, this entire premise seems sick to me. Profiting off of others misery is something only The Fox Network would think up. They are really sick puppies.

Tuesday March 31, 2009
3-d Movie...Monsters vs Aliens...not likely again

So I finally decided to take my 4 yearold grandson to see MONSTERS VS ALIENS at the local Silver City. I figured let us see if he can handle 3D. So off we went to teh first early afternoon showing and I can tell you it will be the last time.

First, let's hit on the price to get in. The four year old cost $11.95 for the matinee, my ticket was $13.95. Total of $25.90 Okay so we got to keep the 3D glasses...whoopty-doo.

Food was equal ridiculous..A small children's bucket and medium popcorn, a smaaalll drink of fruitopia with a medium pop a kinder egg and a small bag of M&M's $21.95

The total was  $47.85 but I did get away with spending only a buck in the arcade.

Okay so in we went to see the movie. I got the grandson to put on the glasses which he kept on for about 15 minutes and then refused to wear them and so he watched the double images on the screen and it didn't seem to bother him. I heard lots of other parents having th esame problem. Really why bother with 3D for young kids who do not even understand or appreciate the effect. Well I'm not that's for sure.

Okay the 3D effect was good but I left with a headache because I had to turn to many times to watch out for the youngster which caused me to watch it sudways which really screws up the eyes giving you a headache. I will not be bothering either. It will be off to THE MOVIE PALACE for me in the future when I take out the little ones. It will definitely be a cheaper experience and no 3D.

Give this new 3D trend  two or three years and Hollywood should send it packing like it has in the past. The sooner the better.

Tuesday March 31, 2009
A Michigan professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country.

This is one of those letters that flies around the internet gaining steam as one person forwards it to ten more. When you want to be sure if those emails are real then all you need to do is check them out on the website called... www.snopes.com

Well this one came back real as real can get. Snopes registers it's status as true.

Claim:  A  Michigan  professor sent an e-mail telling Muslim students to leave the country. 

Status:   True.
 
The story begins at Michigan  State   University with a mechanical engineering professor

 named Indrek Wichman.

Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association.

The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons were 'hate speech'

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Enter Professor Wichman.

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In his e-mail, he said the following:

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Dear Moslem Association,

As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest.

I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians,

cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests(the latest in  Turkey), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in  Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women(called 'whores' in your culture), the murder of film directors in  Holland ,and the rioting and looting in  Paris  France .

This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile 'protests.'

If you do not like the values of the West

- see the 1st Amendment -you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option .

Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.

Cordially,

I. S. Wichman

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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As you can imagine,

the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well. They're demanding that Wichman be reprimanded and the university impose mandatory diversity training for faculty
and mandate a seminar on hate and discrimination for all freshmen.

Now the local chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray .
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion.

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For its part, the university is standing its ground in support of Professor Wichman, saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks.

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Send this to your friends, and ask them to do the same.

Tell them to keep passing it around until the whole country gets it.

We are in a war.

This political correctness crap is getting old and killing us.

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 Well people if you want to pass this letter on to your friends just send them to this blog and they can read ot here. This professor is absolutely correct when it comes to our freedom of speech. I do not see why a religion should be able to try anf curtail our freedoms of speech. I can understand Muslims complaining about other Muslims who may say something about their own religion but those who are not Islamic should not be forced to respect a religion they do not believe in. I do not believe in all that Islam spouts but then again I don't believe everything the Catholic church blathers on about either. I don't really want to hear from some Muslim about how I should treat my religion but if they which to then they have the freedom of speech in the West to say something.

Friday March 20, 2009
Time for more odds and ends

1. Well who was surprised that insurance giant AIG in the US gave out all those bonuses. Corporate greed should never surprise anyone. Maybe President Obama will be able to get that money back and give it back to teh population who really needs it. My attitude is do not bail anyone out. If they fail someone else will take up the slack. They call it survival of the strongest, don't they?

2. If Chrysler wants to bail....LET THEM. I'm sure FORD and GM as well as HONDA et cetra will take up the slack and hire more people. Just make sure that Chyrsler product will not be allowed to be sold in Canada.

3. HST... give it a quick boot out the province. Premiere McGinty will hopefully see the light and drop this badly timed idea. I need to pay more sales tax like I need another orfice to bleed out of.

4. OLG was not very politically correct by giving away foreign cars at a time when Canadian citizens are losing jobs in the car manufacturing field. Tact does not seem their forte I guess.

5. Giving a gun as a raffle prize is another one of those dunderhead moves. The Canadian Shooting Sports Association should have that that one a little more. Did not seem really bright, but really if it is a shooting club then it makes sense that they would raffle off a gun. To win it you did have to be of age and you did have to be able to get a licence so maybe it wasn't so bad. Then again since there have been 60 gun related deaths in Toronto alone so far this year maybe a bit of tact should have been the order of the day.

6. now the Ontario flag flack, that's a doozie. Really it is the flag and it would only seem prudent that the flags of ones province or country should only be made in the country the flag represents. This only seems the proper patriotic thing to do. It just does not seem right to have them made in China for Canadian consumption. New Democrat Peter Kormos was quite within his right to be upset and indignant over this provincial governement slipup. I'm glad to see him bring up this minor injustice. Governments, as far as I'm concerned, should only purchase flags made in our country only. If  the general public wants to buy one made somewhere else that can be accepted but governments should not have that right. This should be addressed once and for all.

More later.

Friday March 20, 2009
Battlestar Galatica Ends

Thank God, at last, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA has ended. Lots of people seem disappointed by the end.

It ended with plenty of questions and unexplained things. The first hour with all the battles and action was fine. The last hour seemed to drag while the writers tried to write nice-nice after all the dark and morbid stuff they have been doing. Sure we knew they were going to arrive on Earth and they did but of course this was one of the many earths that they have been to before. The ending which jumps ahead 150,000 years in the future shows the planet as it is now and the question is put to the audience. Will this story be told again, will everything that happened before happen as mankind evolves nad depends on more machines. The writers hit us across the head with this notion by showing the new robots that man has started developing...you know the ones you see all around the world today. Ho hum!

Anyone who has read and lived with science fiction over the last 50 to 60 years will not be surprised by what we saw. It has been done before ad nauseum. Nothing new. Superiour people land at the time of new man and they decide to intergrate into this primitive world and live their new lives as primitives. All their spaceships were sent into the sun so they would never be discovered. Ho hum!

People who say this was the best science fiction show ever on television have obviously never seen BABYLON FIVE...the greates science fiction television show ever made. It was constantly challenging and original. You have time to watch five years worth plus a few movies then rent or buy the entire BABYLON FIVE series and see a truly great sc-fi production. Hell, even the STARGATE shows put Battlestar in the ground.

Well it's finished and I doubt whether I will waste my time watchig the prequel CAPRICA. Better things to do.

Monday March 16, 2009
It's A Violent World

Yes people we live in a violent world.

Sad as it may seem. I have finally succumbed to the realization that it is a violent world and we want it to be that way. Oh sure, we give lip service to the idea of wanting peace and contentment, love and tolerance but deep down we really love, want, no need violence in our world. Think about it.

Bear with me here because my thoughts may jump around a bit.

Look all around you. Television, movies, comics, novels. video games and real life, it is all about violence, hate, killing, maiming, destruction and revenge. Come on now, you know I'm right. You don't want me to be right; you want to believe that I'm just spouting idiotic ideas, but no, deep down you have this nagging feeling that I may just be right on the button.

I remember in my drive-in theatre managing days, I used to have mother's come to the boxoffice with young children and ask me if there was nudity in  the movie we were showing. I usually said 'no' but it was extremely violent. Their answer, "Oh, that's okay, as long as there is no nudity." Trying not to smack them on the head (see there's a violent mood), I said no, but heads and arms are ripped off. They respond that it's okay as they see that type of violence at home on television and in video games. Can you believe these women?  They would rather let them see violence before seeing a bare breast. Violence trumps the beauty of God's creations. Point.

Television. CSI, NCIS, Bones and others all show morbund violence and body parts. Cable shows that are considered to be well written all glorify violence, just look at Dexter and OZ among others. At the same time shows like FAMILY GUY are under fire by The Parents Televsion Council because of sexual jokes and because a horse licks Peter's bare butt. They have gone as far as petitioning Apple Computers to not advertise on TWO AND A HALF MEN because they are too sexually liberal on the show. The producer creator, Chuck Lorre, asked them what happened to freedom of speech and also wondered if their hands were crippled  because all they had to do was change the channel. Okay, so where are these bastions of our morality when it comes to violence. Do they try to stop the shows I mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph? Nope, because violence seems to be okay. Point.

Movies. Do I really need to explain this one? The average teen (males especially) and the up to 40's audience find movies boring if...there no explosions, no guns of any kind, no terror, no body parts, no characters being blown up to teeny pieces and no racing car crashes that bend people in origami like shapes. Swords cutting people to pieces are also good along with psychotic madmen killing indiscriminately and of course we watch soldiers being blown to pieces of flesh as well. Oh and let's not forget that if teenagers have sex in a horror movie, God will send Jason or some other sicko to make you pay for this nasty behaviour. It seems that according to movie producers and a lot of the population, God likes violence and not sex because he sends these killers to dispatch the young sex starved sinners. Rarely do you see some teenager who mows done other teenagers, being visited by a nasty monster to send them to the great beyond. I guess they believe God accepted the idea of violence but not sex.

See everyone flocks to this type of films because they are being given what they crave...VIOLENCE. This of course is proven by the millions upon millions paid at boxoffices by these lovers of violence. The Academy Award ©  pictures that are mostly quiet, artsy films put together couldn't make as much money as THE DARK KNIGHT.

Speaking of THE DARK KNIGHT let's bounce into the comics and graphic novel arena. These items that everyone seems to think are for kids (they are not by the way) are just dripping with violence today. Comic characters regularly behead people, cut or rip off arms (Superboy turned evil, tore both arms off of one hero), fingers are sliced off, women are raped, killed and maimed. One hero exploded destroying an entire city. Writers today do not know how to write a story that isn't filled with violent acts. They of  course say they do this because it is realistic. The fact is that these writers only believe in violence so they turn their heroes of childhood into killers and foul language spouters because they believe that life is all about violence. It exists in real life so let's fill our media with this reality . They see it as necessary to warp our childhood heroes into vile heroes because this is what they believe a hero is albout. They find it difficult to accept a super boy scout like SUPERMAN.

I have collected comics since I was a child but today I wouldn't buy a comic, for my grandson or granddaughter, of my heroes of old. Archie is one of the only comics safe to buy. We need some CASPERS, LITTLE LULU, SUGAR AND SPIKE among others to give to the younger set. Luckily stores like Big B comics and Comic One have a nice collection of cheap old comics to buy for the younger set.

Look, stories and art are better written and drawn today but I never felt dirty and disgusted after reading those comics of my youth. Today I read them still but I feel revolted after I read the majority of today's comics. Violence is  so bad in comics today that I wouldn't be surprised if picked some comic up one day and saw blood dripping out of it. There are times that I feel ashamed buying these new comics. I have lots of friends who have finally given up and refuse to buy most of today's comics. Instead they purchase collected graphic novels of older comics from the days that heroes were really heroes. They even sell off  their new comics because they have had enough of their heroes turning into creatures of violence.I watched WONDER WOMAN break the neck of a villiian; Batman becoming more and more violent. Even Superman a few years ago actually killed three super powered villians to save earth. Lucky they wrote that happening out of the last new re-imaging of the character. Marvel characters wallow in violence. Captain America was actually seen kicking and stomping the head of a man he put down.

Why are the comic companies doing what they were criticized for doing in the fifties; something that nearly destroyed the industry at that time. Why are companies doing this? They need to do it to hold on to the dwindling audience thay have and that audience believes the world to be a violent place and want violent heroes to deal with violent villians that can not be stopped by just the threat of prison. It's the way it is. Here is a list of violent acts in a special 6 issue limited series from DC comics called THE TERROR TITANS.  We won't tally the punchouts since they are normal super hero behaviours. One miniscule character is cut in half; one fallen hero is shot dead in the head; two villians have their heads sliced in half; one innocent  has her fingers sliced off; another one has the spine ripped out of his body; one young villianess stabs her mother to death; one heroine stabs another heroine in the  ear; a young villian puts his father into a wall cutting him in half; a young kid cuts his gay boyfriend to death; one young hero splits open the head of another young character; a villian puts a hole into the chest of  a father; one young villianess breaks her mother's neck; one young girl is forced to blow herself up and finally one villian totally blows the flesh off a female character. Point.

Children have been growing up since the eighties with war being broadcast in great detail over the airwaves. War has become a spectator sport. Young people today see religious zealots blow up buildings killing hundreds, sometimes thousands of people at one time. The youth around the world see this as a normal way of life now. Their musical heroes sing about violence, revenge and killing. Young people see it as being cool to shoot others over even the smallest slight or for not showing respect. My God, kids are killing other kids for their running shoes that are worth hundreds of dollars. Other youth in certain races or religions are so accustomed to violence that they are willing to become human bombs because they feel it is their duty and it is a way to a better afterlife. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.

People today see life as not worth much because we are bombarded with news and religions that tell us that we are not of much value except as cannon fodder for zealots, armies and corporations who need us to buy their products. People see that the strong and violent people win out and that greedy men and women win over the poor. They believe that the those willing to kill will always be on top. Youth feel they can get away with vile acts because they see violent terrorists and religious zealots get away with the violence they foment. They see the leaders of the world act like thugs and escape sanctions. This all causes everyday people to assume that they to can escape punishment and that if they are violent and cruel they will be respected. Arrest and inprisonment becomes a badge of honour.

What do we do to stop this trend? NOTHING!!! Why, because rightfully so the average citizen is too afraid to get involved for fear of  reprisals and guns pulled on them. Be a good samaritan and you don't have to worry about just being punched and kicked...oh no...you worry about a gun being used on you. So we live in fear, quake in our boots and sit back and let the world around us get more violent. We sit back and let Middle East terrorists, terrify us so much so that we are even afraid to use our free speech in fear of their threats of violent reprisals. The youth see this as a weakness of our generation and decide that violence and terror works and so they terrorize their parents, their friends, their teachers and anyone else in their way. What do we do? We cower in the corner giving credence to their beliefs. Is it any wonder they do this? These young people are surrounded worldwide by powerful killers and criminals that they see as winners.  Real and fictious characters win when they are violent. Their heroes have become violent and their world is violent and so they are violent. They do not believe for a moment that the meek will inherit the earth. They believe and know that those willing to be violent go out in a blaze of glory,  will always be the strongest and they will always be feared.

Who do these violent kids and terrorists fear? They only give a minimum amount of thought and fear to law enforcement and soldiers because they too carry weapons and can kill them. Even then it isn't much of a fear because they believe they are invulnerable to death. The general public they do not fear at all because the citizenry can be intimidated easily at the point of a gun or when faced by bombs. They see us only as cannon fodder & suppliers of funds to continue their violent ways.

So, is it a violent world? You decide. No don't bother, you know it is a violent world and you relish and thrive in it. It thrills you. It makes you feel more alive. Okay, alive until some ass with a gun, bigger than him puts a bunch of holes into you. That's okay though, because dead you will go to a better place and if you're a believer in Islam you will finally get your 96 virgins in heaven. That has to be better than what you have on this planet.

My suggestion to you is learn to live with it and eventually die with it or learn how to fight and shoot and swing a sword because it could save your life. Of course then you become just as violent as those other guys. Oh well, at least the media isn't going to be boring over the years ahead.

Friday March 06, 2009
Heh!! I just had to throw this one your way

Friday March 06, 2009
HELL freezing over

I received one of those funny letters people send you. This got me thinking.

You can read the letter below but what is interesting is one statement that was made in the body of the letter. It's funny, I never thought of it but I should have. My buddy Karl, who will probably read this at some time will agree with me that we should have thought of this one a long time ago.

Virtually every religion, on this mudball we call Earth, tells us that if we do this or that or we don't believe in their form of religion we will go to HELL. Well since none of the religion mix together then according to Christians you will go to Hell if you are a pagan. If you are Islamic you believe that those that don't follow your teachings then off you go to the firepits of the horny guy. The Mormons and the Angelicans and Heaven knows who else, believe that non-believers will be well roasted after death as well. So, if this is the case, then I guess the letter is true, we will all go to Hell no matter what we do or how good we are. I guess we should all do what we want and learn how to use whips and chains and handcuffs...yowza!!!!

Oh, unless I'm wrong we won't see any Buddhists in Hell because  they don't belief in Hell and believe that we all come back eventually....but wait. The other religions consider them pagans so they will go to Hell but they believe in reincarnation so they will get out of Hell...BUT...if what Buddhists believe is true, than we will all come back therefore we will get out of Hell, so the theory brought forth in  the letter may not actually work.

Darn isn't religion a bitch. Doesn't this type of thinking actually show you that religions aren't reeeeaaally what they pretend to be....maybe, just maybe they are nothing more than useless, war creating crutches. Think on it.

Karl and I will think about it for a few minutes and then we'll  go have a drink of amaretto and sambuca and realize that Heaven is in something we enjoy and in that which is pleasant and that Hell is when gorgeous women find you to darn old to give you the time of day. Darn!!!

Now on to the letter below....

HELL EXPLAINED BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT
The following is an actual question given on a University of  Washington chemistry mid term. 
The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well : 

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? 

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. 

One student, however, wrote the following: 

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how
many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. 

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same,
the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.  This gives two possibilities: 

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.  

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over. 

So which is it? 

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God.' 

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+

Sunday March 01, 2009
Bottled water...why??

I remember when I was nagged into selling bottled water at The Starlite Drive-In. One of the partners kept telling me that we should sell it because it was the next big thing. I fought it tooth and nail insisting people would not be silly enough to pay for water when they could get it for free from taps. I finally caved in and I quickly discovered that, yes, people were silly enough to buy this bottled water. I even started drinking it. The mark up on the water was pretty good and it sold cases every day so it became a staple but I never realized just how insidious this was going to become.

In my foolishness and yours as well, I didn't realize that we were selling city tap water that was just processed by the Coke people, the Nestles people and Pepsi companies and then simply bottled. I did not realize that I was paying more per gallon of water than I was for gasoline. None of use really concerned ourselves with the plastic bottles that quickly began to litter the dumps and for what? It wasn't mineral water or sparkling water, it was just plain tap water on the majority, and we were conned into drinking it. I can understand buying it when in an area where tap water wasn't available or was just crappy but drinking it at home is just plain stupid.

My wife solved the problem by getting one of theose large Brita filter containers. Now I just fill drinking bottles when I go out biking or driving around. I'm saving a fortune and reducing plastic waste. We bought a 36 pack case for our New Year's Eve party and to this date we still have 30 bottles sitting there. We just got out of using it and we don't miss it one bit.

Remember municipal tape water is tested much more frequently than bottled water so you are getting good water and if you want it filtered then buy a Brita or some other filtration system. You'll save mucho dineros and the environment as well.

Sunday March 01, 2009
The Simpsons

I remember seeing the Tracy Ullman show, when was it, twenty odd years ago??
Her comedy show was alright but she introduced a new and interesting cartoon short based on a dysfunctional cartoon family called The Simpsons on April 19, 1987.
I watched the show just to see this cartoon and then it finally received it's own series on the Fox Network, in 1990. It's now heading towards its 500th episode. Not bad, eh?

The thing that makes the Simpsons special is that it will become the longest running television show since GUNSMOKE. The western lasted 20 years on the air from 1955 to 1975 and so has The Simpsons. This Emmy winning cartoon series will definitely make 22 years on the air since FOX has renewed it for another two years. It will be the longest running primetime television series ever.  Oh and by the way it has won 24 Emmy among many other awards. In case you were off the planet for a while then you should know they even made one movie in 2007.  Not bad for a dysfunctional family, right?

It has survived because the show stays fresh in the hands of some excellent writers and head man Mat Groening. I think that we will probably see it around for a few years even after this extension. Three cheers for the funny yellow skinned first family of Springfield.

Friday February 27, 2009
Chechen leader Kadyrov imposes strict brand of Islam

Click on the headline to read this article... Chechen leader Kadyrov imposes strict brand of Islam

This article should make you sick to read.

To think this crap goes on around the world is a nauseating thought. What I don't understand is why so many people believe this Islamic religion should be respected, when they don't even respect their own people. How can the world population accept in this day and age a religion or a people who  even say that women are possessions and not free individuals. How can people around the world accept comments from government leaders who actually say that all women are good for only  having babies. That is sick. I said something like that in most of the Western world I would be branded some type of deviant and yet we are told we have to respect a religion that preaches this type of crap. Why?

Why the f&*k are all you women out there actually believing that Muslim women are the way they are because they want to be. They wear and spout the trappings because they have to, or do they really believe that they are only baby making possessions of men and accept it willingly. It is hard to imagine that SLAVES would take anything like this willingly. Black slaves did not accept it without threats to their lives. Well thes Muslim women accept it because their lives are being threatened. Anyone who tells you otherwise is plainly lying to you out of fear. How many times do you hear and read of young Muslim women who decide to go their own way only to be maimed, tortured or killed as honour killings. The world should place sanctions against governments or countries that spout this bullshit crap, instead of supporting it by doing and saying nothing.

Reading this article should make you sick and if it doesn't then you obviously believe women should be slaves. You obviously think that it was quite all right to put bullets into seven young women's heads because they supposedly were of loose morals because they were seen on dates. You obviously believe it was quite alright for the families to kill them to protect their own honour.

Perhaps if you really believe this, then you are MORONIC IDIOTS. This whole thing totally disgusts me so I am outta here for now.

Friday February 27, 2009
McGinty stupidity

$300.00 is  a cash grab!!!!

This new provincial government proposal to have us get an energy audit when selling our homes...does nothing but pad provincial coffers. I would rather be told that we have to give the treasury an extra $300 when we sell a house then to get conned into believing this is going to help home buyers. Any home buyer who is interested in the homes energy efficiency can do so by paying  an energy auditor at their expense. This whole thing just puts a new strain on housing sales. The marketplace needs more impediments like it need holes in the walls. If the government wants to improve our energy efficiency then start off with rules for new homes and cover at least 90% of people's retrofits and improvements to their home. If they did this then we we can see they are putting their  money (oops, our money), where their mouths are.

Remember how emmisssions testing was supposed to help...well did it? No, it didn't. Will this new stupid idea work? No it won't.

Friday February 27, 2009
Ditching farmers road side signs

Stupid!!!!

Good old Hamilton's by-law people and those who control them are idiots. Ontario and everyone else who isn't on the Hamilton City Council are promoting eating locally grown foods. So what do these idiots do...they stop these poor, hardworking farmers from letting people know that they exist by banning simple roadside signs. Farmers like my uncle work hard, plugging away trying to make a living and being good city citizens. These guys spend their money here and do all they can for their city and families and the city rewards them by putting obsticales in their path.

If you can do anything to help these farmers then do so by calling your councilmen and councilwomen to get them to reverse their stupid move and maybe we can all enjoy the fruits of their labours.

Read the Hamilton Spectator article by clicking here.

"GOOD THINGS GROW IN ONTARIO."

"STUPIDITY GROWS IN HAMILTON CITY COUNCIL."

Thursday February 26, 2009
Godless and free...do we need relgion

Well here is the last commentary from Mr. Condell for now. He speaks about religion in a way that he hits it home for me. He has come the closest to my beliefs than anyone I've listened to. I am relgious but no the way most people are. I do not believe in dogma of religions. I find it goes against everything that God would believe in. Religion is the ruination of mankind and as long as we need it we will never no true peace in the world because those who are religion's caretakers want, no, NEED to maintain the status quo. They need us to be prisoners of dogma so they can control us. They want us to to die for God, go to churches for God, kill for God, donate money for God and give them our complete obedience for God.

Understand one important thing about all gods...if we stop believing in them, they will cease to exist. They are there for us and not we for them. Understand this and you will truly be free and able to worship what is good for you  and not the death religions that others want you to worship.

Listen once again to the video by CLICKING HERE.

Thursday February 26, 2009
Shame on the Netherlands...a country compromised my Islam.

This British Commentator, Mr. Condell brings us another video about the abuses to freedom in Europe and especially in the Netherlands.. I can not believe that a country so proud of it's freedom of speech and its tolerance has been driven to it's knees by the world's chief exporters of terror and intolerance. Actually making religious insults a criminal offence. Can you believe this horse crap?

I think I finally see why we have a growing gang culture in North America and Europe. It seems that if you can threaten and kill people then governments and citizens will fear you and give you what you want. It seems that we have Islamic thugs to thank for that. It's too bad that that these extremists will one day lead the world into a major religious war or into a new society where our children and grandchildren will be ruled by SHARIA law and our women will once again lose all their rights and be just plain baby making machines. I guess this idea must be very appealing to men, huh?

Listen to the video by CLICKING HERE.

Thursday February 26, 2009
Freedom go to hell

This British Commentary, Mr. Condell, is really good...here is another video about the abuses to freedom in Great Britain. I agree with him completely. The Christian West is beling led like sheep to the slaughter by political correctness and politicians who feel they can only stay in power if they go along with Islamic hoodlums. They always threaten us with violence when they want something. Hmm!! Must be a cultural thing, don't you think?

CLICK HERE for the video.

Thursday February 26, 2009
British Commentator on Islam and Saudi Arabia

A British commentator does not mince words when he speaks on Saudi Arabia Human Rights Commission launching a human rights violation  complaint in Copenhagen that Muslims in Europe are denied human rights. Okay stop laughing....get off the floor already. Can you believe that Saudi Arbia has a Human Rights Commission? Okay now I have to stop laughing.

Listen to this video and try not to laugh to hard when you hear what these guys are trying to pull off. This is a no holds barred commentary with good insight.

CLICK HERE to view the video.

Monday February 23, 2009
81st Academy Awards

Well they're over. This low budget Academy Awards was nice to see. Streamlined and ending at a good time. The advertising dollars were scarce this year and I'm sure that affected the program budget. It was the way to go this year.

Hugh Jackman...great. He did a great job and the guy sure can sing and dance.

Tina Fey and Steve Martin best presenters of the night.

Ben Stiller was the worst presenter of the night...what was it he was trying to do...who knows.....who cares.

Best moments...Heath Ledger's best supporting actor acceptance speeches from his family and Jerry Lewis getting his lifetime achievement award. This was long overdue.

I was disappointed that Sean Penn received Best Actor as I really wanted the underdog. Mickey Rourke to grab this oscar.

I'm not sure because maybe I blinked but during the  montage of those who passed away this past year I missed Heath Ledger. Did anybody see him in the montage? I hope I just missed him.

Well that's it for this year. If you want to see the winners click here.

Saturday February 14, 2009
God given free will.

The Catholic religion has constantly stressed...when it is benifical to them, that God has given us free will, an important part of our religion. So why is it that the very same Church tries to do their level best to take this GOD GIVEN RIGHT of FREE WILL away from us.

I don't neseccarily believe in any of the following but I would like to know that others and maybe myself if it comes down to it, have our free will to choose our destinies in anyway we see fit. If a woman wants an abortion, it is her God given right to use HER FREE WILL to do so. I don't agree with it but then again I'm not a woman. I don't believe in killing anyone but then I'm not a cop or a soldier facing down the barrel of someones gun. I don't believe that we should have euthansia but then again I'm not in the position at this time to need this use of my Free Will. I practice my religion because I have the free will to do so; not because the Church tells me I have to, as other more rigid religions do. If I decide to do something wrong I will do it because of free will and if it is against the public policy then I will have to take the punishment given to me.

What this about was the cap happening in Rome, Italy recently. Read the article by clicking here.

This girl had a right to die and since the decision was up tot eh parents they had the right to use their free will do do what they feel was needed for the benefit of their child. It's time that Churches and Religions worldwide recognized this fact. Would I be able to do this to a child of mine? At this time and place I would say no but then again I am not in that position so it is easy for me to say this now. If I was in the position to have to make a choice, well I would like to think that I would be able to exercise my God given free will and not their dictates.

Saturday February 14, 2009
Signs of the times

I was reading an article in the Hamilton Spectator on how each day brings new signs that the economy is not quite on a steady track.Job losses are out of sight and people are hording their money, just like me. Here are some samples of tough times that I found interesting.

U.S. GIRL SCOUT cookies are now smaller making them cheaper to make and cheaper to sell.

Couples are fighting more over money during this economic crisis.

Banks are practicing risk aversion by not lending money; consumers don't spend and businesses don't produce with credit and loans.

The governments are trying to tell people to spend to the economy going, but that's hard to do when yo are afraid that tomorrow you may not have a job. We all know this would work but are not willing to take the chance.

Many immigrants are leaving the new world because they are losing jobs. People in Canada are mving around the coountry to find work as well.

WalMart is even hit by all this as sales drop even for them. They are laying off thousands to save money but they even cut down the size of their business cards, THe cards are now one third of their regular size and cost two thirds less to produce.

Vogue, poor vogue has gone down from 840 pages in 2007 to only 226 pages this year. Obviously advertisers are being frugal but you cheap out of work bastards refuse to spend your rent money on expense clothes made for pennies in other countires...booo hoo hoo, I feel so sorry for those as*wipes who took their manufacturing to other countries to save money but still charge us ridiculous prices. Where do these ding-a-lings think we were going to get money if they took the workers pay to send their jobs to some Asian country like let's say...CHINA???

Some rich people are so worried about showing they have money to spend that they are buying plain labels so as not to show off their wealth. Yeah, they're afraid some of those out of work types may rob them.

OHHH!!! This is so sad...it seems that the poor Saudi Billionaire Prince Walid Bin Talal posted a $8.26 billion quarterly loss because his assets are drop in value. Okay now, everybody say it with me...ahhh, poor babbby!!!

Companies are trying to get more employees to take extra days off without pay so they don't have to lay off people. This is only one of the smart ideas out there. Better for workers to get something than to get nothing.

The military in Canada and in the USA is receiving a 90% increase in new recruits. Hey, this is a good idea, three squares a day, a place to sleep, training to shoot and kill (get them ready for the upcoming future World-Religious War coming soon to a planet near you) and you get to travel without paying exhorbitant flight fees.

Colleges and Universities are getting a higher attendance. Might as well stay in school...no jobs out there.

A good thing is that more retail outlets are slashing prices just to stay open and not go oout of business.

Hudson's Bay has such poor sales that they are laying off 1,000 jobs to save $150 million.

Even online sales are down. Ebay sales are falling sharply. Their sales have dropped 30%, the first decline since it started in 1995. Hmmm...buy some collectables or buy food??? That's a tough one isn't it?

Free online gaming is on the increase. Save money don't buy those overly expensive games. Of course as their advertising revenue drops these sites may start shutting down or charging more.

Vegas visits are now shorter and less money is being bet. I guss they figured people are stupid enought o blow their rent money  on a losing proposition.

MUZAK HOLDING INCE. the guys who supply music to elevators and such have filed for bankrupcy protection in the US.

In Canada the numbe rof bankrupcies have gone up 47% in December of 2008 ove rhte previous year. Gee I wonder why?

Hamilton hospitals are thinking of no longer serving hot meals to their patients to save money. This is really stupid...a great way to help patients get better isn't it?

Of course some companies benefit...bankrupcy trustees, Ikea (cheap, cheap furniture), Lowe's (Canadian federal tax crdits for renovations will help them), Netflix in the US have rising prospects as more people stay home to watch movies

Oh and just in case you think everything is all bad news, Cineplex Odeon Theatres say that this past holiday season did tremendous business. It seems like in the last great depression, movie going is the more affordable night out still even with the ridiculously high prices. They are correct because most poeple are social animals and so they like to go out among other people. Most of us have been trained to accept theatre prices as reasonable and so many still go out to movies. BUT...BIG BUT....last depression movies were only 10 cents....a far cry from todays prices. We will have to wait and see how long this romance lasts.

I do recommend that if you do want to go out and enjoy a movie among others then go to the drive-in theatres. You get two movies (at least), you don't need babysitters, sometimes some will give you extra entertainment, the food is more varied than theatres (the smart drive-in owner will have this) and sometimes a little cheaper. The social aspect is much better as you get to socialize during the night with friends and other patrons. It's a much better deal.

Saturday February 14, 2009
Actors pay

I was thinking about how President Obama and our politicians are all going on about how Corporate leaders and Wall street types should take cuts in pay to halp save their companies. I go along wholeheartedly with this idea but they seem to have left out a fairly large group of money grubbing citizens out there.

ACTORS...not the hard working character actors but the superstar actors. Wouldn't it help the industry and the economy if these guys weren't demanding $25 million or more a picture. Guys like Will Smith, Jim Carrey, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and the rest should stop asking for so much money and the studios should stop handing out these incredible amounts of money.

Actors are workers like anyone else and sure they may deserve some more money then other workers but still they are only talented workers, like hundreds of thousand other talented workers in other fields. The only thing that makes them special are that they have agents, the rest of us don't. I know alot of actors and other workers will say it is a capitalist system so they should be able to get the most they can but in these economic times they should show some leadership along with politicians and corporate bigwigs and take a cut to lead the way.

Maybe if they didn't take as much...just maybe the studios could cut down on their costs for films and have those cuts trickle down to the dvd's we buy. Okay stop laughing....I know, you doubt thiswill ever happen any more than I do. Nice to think about it though, isn't it?

Friday February 06, 2009
important moments

The wife and I proudly have aquired a new grandson on Feb 4...Little Michael. Congrats to Kelly and Lou. They really should have called him Vince though...it is a great name...can't go wrong with that.

On the sad note...today marks that ten years ago my dad died. What is sad about that is that he would have just loved seeing all his great grandchildren. To bad it had to go that way. It is nice though that I believe that in death we become connected to the universe and somehow we will know when important things happen in the lives of those we leave behind.

He took a chance and suffered quite a bit to bring my mother and I over from Italy so that we could have a better life and for that the whole family thanks him.

Our mother Rosa, myself, Lina, Angela, Cosimo and all the grandchildren will remmeber him and we will try to make sure that his great grandchildren will learn some stories of him.

Dad is out their roaming the grandeur of the universe and we wish him the best until we meet again if that is the way it goes.

Friday February 06, 2009
What sucks??

Here are some things that SUCK......

Government, banks, politicians, cheating lottery salespeople, me not winning the big lottery, POOCH CAFE in the comic pages, pizza palces that use stupid high acid cheap tomatoes that give you wicke heartburn, people who complain their kids have trouble breathing while they smoke a cigarette in tehir face, MacDonald burgers (they were better when they used worm protein in them), having to stay away from french fries...with gravy and malt vingear (this really sucks), doctor's who don't listen to their patients because they know it all but can't be bothered to really go out and learn it all, Prime Minister Stephen (what a loser) Harper, politicians (worth repeating twice), not having the time or money to go see all the movies you want, the lack of 48 hour days to get everything done, 3-D movies for kids who couldn't ell the difference if you through it in their face, wearing 3-d glasses, arrogant actors, arrogant teachers, arrogant drivers who wait until you signal before they try to cut you off, Batman manga comics, the lack of respect for life and FUN in today's comic books, computer technicians who want your money but treat you like some type of ignorant jackass for  not understanding computer terms, Batman dying....AGAIN....Captain AMerica dying ans sitting around for years befor ethey bring him back because you know they need him alive because they would never wnat to lose the billions he brings in....OKAY BREATHE......

What sucks??? People who take kids to movies that look like kids movies but are really kids movies for adults...did you get that...CORALINE for example...IGOR for another....parents who think it is okay to have their kids watching movies with people being torn apart but cringe at the idea of them seeing a bare breast (this sucks really bad)....here's more that sucks...you ready.....too many reality shows, too many leagl tv shows, to many cop shows, to many paranoid conspiracy shows...not enough old fashioned fun cartoons...okay FAMILY GUY and SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS don't count...oops SIMPSONS as well.

Frank Miller thinking he could do a movie of THE SPIRIT really sucks....More suckables are heading your way....getting aknee operation and being out of commission during the key summer months, religion and religious zealots, people who think the Bible is accurate and yet refuse to really acknowledge what it says....SQUIRRELS....more SQUIRRELS...oh they really suck when they eat my pears....son-in-laws who won't come to dig my garden when I'm out of commission, wives who somehow really belief that as men get older we lose all sense of common sense and knowledge, escargot that costs too much, prostate problems, losing one's hair (especially if you are woman), not getting enough sex, babystting grandkids that seem to save all their poop until you have to change them....pee---uuuuu!!!!

BLUERAY disks that have so much shit on them that you will never have the time or inclionation to watch, movie companies who put on all this shit just so they can charge you more, film distributors who sell their $24 movies to us and sell those same movies to Chinese for $2 to stem piracy.....wait a sec here...hahhahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! yup that's the way to convince the other countries not to pirate movies...the music industry who needs to get into the real world...with the exception of SPIRAL FROG...comic book stories that take 4 years to finish a plot line....you hear that DC Comics...Marvel Comics??? It sucks when they close down local movie theatres so we get forced to travel miles for big box cinemas, drive-in theatres with losey food, losey drive-in managers who refuse to treat patrons with some iota of sonsideration, drive-ins who don't give out fog checks when it fogs up, movie theatres that sell tickets on line so that those who actually get up to go early to the boxoffice can't get a ticket, people who do everything they can to scam movie theatres for free tickets, COSTCO...who could possible eat all the quantity they try to sell you before it expires...they just want you fat, insurance companies who want your money but never want to pay up, doctor's who solve all your drug related problems with another drug, doctor's who are quick to ask you if you want VIAGRA or CIALAS because the drugs they prescribe gives you erectile dysfunction, people who wear to sets of socks to bed and then complain that they feel unbearably hot at night, wives who don't want to give you sex more than once a month and then complain when you try to ease their stress by going out and getting it with someone who enjoys it....okay lets continue on another paragraph.

Weather stations who couldn't get the weather right even if it was pouring rain on them, stupid television corporations who buy out good local tv stations and then proceed to screw them up, not enough HOUSE OF FRIGHTENSTEIN reruns, babies that puke all over you when all you did was try to make them happy by feeding their hungry maws, to many reruns of FRIENDS, not enough reruns of Two and Half Men, not letting viewers finally see Mulder and Scully having dirty, raunchy extraterrestial sex, stupid studios who get upset because people upload clips from their favourite shows on to youtube which usually garner them more viewers on their network shows,....

BREATHE....BREATHE....

bottled water...I still can't believe we really are stupid enough to buy them and sell them, drug companies, drug company advertising, drug compnay lies, drug company propaganda, drug companies who want to start little kids on cholestral medication (can't disguise that money grab any way you try), drug companies (worth repeating many more times), people who can't seem to get through a sentence without using the word f*#k, rap music (okay most of it but not all of it), people who believe reality exists only in movies, guns, gun manufacturers, gun sellers, gun buyers, gun shooters, getting hit by a bullet....it really sucks getting killed by a bullet, gangs whose only self worth is in the handling and using a gun, young gang members who really can't seem to understand they will eventually all lose, stepping on a stingray really sucks along with being caressed by a poisonous jellyfish, mushy jello, sucking back salt water in Mexico when you are snorkelling, not being able to go on vacation every other weeks really sucks, scifi stations that show non sci-fi shows, Knightrider, the cancellation of PUSHING DAISIES and ELI STONE, replacing good tv shows with crappy reality shows, that stupid commercial with that dog shlurpping for 30 seconds inside a dogfood bag, unrelenting spam mail, spam mail for viagara, those stupid phone calls that harrass you all day and night....tahnk god that some have stopped since the no call list (did you know that if you call those 800 numbers back thay wgive you an option to put yourself on tehir no call list???? Yup!!!),

Microsoft sucks really bad, the cost of software really sucks, finding out that you never really own any software you buy (try selling a program liek Macaffee on ebay),, the cost of gas, cola products (cause I can't have any), eamils from people who want to give me hundreds of thousands of dollars as long as I give them my bank info...uh huh.... people who fall for that crap, the constant software upgrades, the constant video changes...hell, blueray is already heading out, the fact technocracy parties failed, not enough comediand like the Marx Bros and Abott and Costello, white high school guys trying to be like black kids....you're white stupid...you can't pull it off, ethnic groups with chips on their shoulders, immigrants who bring their shit to Canada with them, organized crime from other countries that take foothold here...we don't need you...we have perfectly good criminals of our own...we really don't need you, tasers really suck...they make police lazy and careless, radar units who are never around when you are driving the speed limit and everyone flies past you with horns blaring. radar units who seem to suddenly appear the one day you decide to speed for teh first tiem in months, arrogant teenagers, arrogant adults, loins and tigers who try to eat you just because you want to go up and pet the cute pussycats, everyone telling you to stop eating as much meat, vegans, the damn freezing weather. It sucks that we have global warming and we get colder weather, the fact that new species of inects appear everyday and we can't seem to have any new species of humans appear, like gorgeous green women (green is my favourite colour), the re-working of the Star Trek mythology, the ending of the Stargate tv shows. It sucks that DEXTER is such a nice guy and he's a killer. Remaking classic movies that fail miserable because the studios fail to realize why they were successful in the first place...

NOW YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY SUCKS....I have more to ad but I need to wrap this up. More to come someday.

Friday February 06, 2009
capitalism

CAPITALISM is great...CAPITALISM running amok is not great...it's BAD!!!!

Will someone try to make them understand.....okay hold on a second....I just had to say this but....sorry...I just have to do this...I can't help it...I...I.... oh what the heck...BWAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA...BWAHHHAAHHHHAHHHHH...shnortle...hahahahhahahahaha....snicker...BWAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Okay I'm done with this!!!

Friday February 06, 2009
Nuns run better hospitals

When I worked at ST. JOE'S HOSPITAL years ago, the nuns ran the place and they ran it well. I never remember them not having operating capital problems. The place was a better place to go. Now that corprations run the hospitals it seems their pays are more important than your health care, but isn't hat the way it is for all money grubbing corporations.

I can  not believe what they are doing to the nurses....THE FREAKIN' NURSES...the people who keep the hospitals running and keep the patients moving through. Hey, hospital corporations, politicians.....HEALTH OF YOUR POPULACE COMES FIRST. Screw fixing roads, and putting up pretty box stores and parking lots and taking bigger pay raises...think first of medical care because sick people do not help the country...they don't produce, they don't buy things, they don't pay taxes and probably can't even get up to vote. You need healthy people to keep the country healthy and to keep those people healthy we need excellent health care. We need more doctors and nurses and medical facilaties. We need more not less. Cutting nurses...what a load of  discarded scrubs (okay I got tired of saying a-holes).

Friday February 06, 2009
Hooray for Obama

I haven't said to much about Obama because others have said plenty...but...I have to congratulate him on trying to rein in all those corporate a-holes who only care about their bank account and couldn't give a rat's patootie about yours.

Congrats on limiting their pays if the government bails them out. You don't get money to help your business stay afloat just so you can give yourselves a nice hefty bonus. A-holes!!!!

Friday February 06, 2009
Conservative ignorance

I just can not belief that the Convervative human Resources minister actually had the balls to say that people who have lost their jobs would become lazy and not try to find other jobs, if, they increased the E.I. payment periods. Well, hey, the Conservatives would know all about that, I guess.

They sure are fighting hard to stay on feeding at the public teat. I guess they probably feel that since they are lowlife public teat suckers, then all those hard working people who were canned will also become public teat suckers and as we all know, teat suckers hate sharing the teats with anyone else.

Conservative crap is now as bad as Liberal crap...lets face it once we elect them, they really don't give a rat's ass about you, the voter, UNTIL...the next election of course. During the campaigns they put on their poufy little faces and tell you how sweet they are and how much they want to help you, the poor lowly taxpayer with all your problems. Then once elected they all seem to become afflicted with communal alzheimers.

Lazy....what crap!!!! Maybe those lazy unemployed people who have a vote, will use it next time you push us to the poles, by kicking you off the public teat.

Friday February 06, 2009
Law must supersede religious beliefs

You know if you went to another country to visit or to live and even become a citizen of that country, you are subject to all it's laws...NOT....the ones that you feel you want to respect. The law is the law and religious beliefs should have no bearing.

In October, Ontario Court Justice Norris Weisman reached his "admittedly difficult decision" to force a muslim woman to testify without her niqab and  her face bared during a sexual assault trial. You can read an article here. Accused people in this country have the right to face their accusers in court and the defense has a right to be able to see reactions and emotions on a witnesses face anything less is unacceptable. If the witness refuses then her charges should be dismissed. The dignity of our court system needs to be protected with no exceptions...especially for religious dogma.

This unnamed muslim woman says she has the right to keep her face covered because it is part of her religion showing she has no real respect or acknowledge of our laws. She feels like many muslim women that they are above our laws  to protect some strange idea that the religion is more important. WRONG!!!!

The courts have dictated to other religions before, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, so what is the difference. Of wait the difference is that Jehovah's Witnesses don't scare Western people because they don't bomb us, or our buildings. They don't send suicide bombers to scare us do they, so we dictate to them without fear of reprisals.

The fact is that deep down, even though we try to be tolerant of other religions we fear muslim extremism above all other things. We try to say that not all of them are extremists but hidden in our core we worry about some form of retaliation and so politicians, judges, police and regualr citizens try to convince themslves that it is quite alright ot bend the rules for them, because of our religious tolerance...BULLCRAP!!!

We are becoming weak-kneed cowering sycophants in the face of these potiental threats. The fact is that we have to stand up to people like this woman and say, "You want to live here and accept the benefits of the freedoms in this country, then learn to abide by our laws that allow you to live in peace." The greatest majority of muslims aren't violent in Canada and I really believe they are looking for a peaceful life, where their childreen aren't turned into human bombs. So, all I ask (we should all ask) is that they please abide by our laws which are more important than any religion. Do this and things will be better.

A pat on the back goes to the judge for standing firm. I would just like to see our politicians make it clear that the laws in this country supercede all religions and if they do not want to abide, then use the freedom, you have, to leave.

Friday January 09, 2009
Bald Eagle

Isn't it great to have bald eagles in the area. It seems some have come to the Dundas area. Give one up to Mother Nature. They are beautiful birds.

Friday January 09, 2009
Patrick Swayze

As you all know by now, the 56 year old Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer. I watched the interview with Barbara Walters and I go to tell you that man has spunk. I hope that if I was ever unfortunate enough to get some type of terminal illness, I would have his attitude. The man has courage. He will be starring in the the A&E series THE BEAST even though he may only be able to finish one season.

Swayze said that he probably has 2 years to live at the most and wants to make the most of the time he has. He knows that he will be remembered by his films. Everyone will remember DIRTY DANCING and GHOST so he has little to worry about.

In a nice touch Swayze and his wife Lisa of 33 years reaffirmed their love for each other by re-creating the classic story of Snow White including white stallion and coach. I wish the best for both of them and as long life as possible for Patrrick.

Thursday January 08, 2009
The children

I'm going to finish off today with just saying that the only real losers in this Israel-Gaza war (?) are the children. They suffer for thier parents sins and beliefs. These children will unfortunately propagate this hatred as they grow up because all tey will remember is the pain and death that they are told comes from the Jews. They will never see the other side and grow up with hatred at the lose of family and friends. The vicious circle will just not end unless something is done. The problem is what do you do to change things? Talks have failed, fighting is getting them nowhere and genocide seems to always hang over the heads of all those involved.

The losers will always be the children. For this I have no answer, but i do have sadness in my heart.

Thursday January 08, 2009
'Disproportionate' is dominant Muslims' intolerance of Jews

'Disproportionate' is dominant Muslims' intolerance of Jews by Steven Scheffer in a letter to the editor.

Thursday January 08, 2009
CUPE union does what??

Where the hell does CUPE get the right to ask schools to ban Israeli speakers from lecturing in schools in Ontario??

Read this editorial from THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR and learn what thay said. Ryan wrong to propose ban....

So what did you think after reading that one, eh?  What ceases to amaze me is how, we a people who believes in freedom of speech and press constantly breeds brainless dimwits who try to destroy our very beliefs in freedom. Considering these idiots work in schools you would think that some of the intellect in the schools would rub off on them. Obviously it hasn't and probably won't because you have to have a brain in your head to absorb some information. Hey MORONS freedom of speech, a corner stone of our society, remember that...it's why your grandparents and parents fought in 2 wars. This Sid Ryan is a complete idiot and moron if he really believes in this claptrap he is spouting. He is probably a good guy normally but in this case he is wacked.

Thursday January 08, 2009
Gaza info

I read this letter to the editor by Daniel Kollek and thought it should be passed on.

Re: Gaza

There are recurring erroneous comments in articles and letters published about Gaza.

There is no occupation of Gaza. Israel left Gaza in September 2005. It is precisely because Israel gave Gaza back to the Palestinians that Hamas was able to take over and use it as a base for rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. Even if one's memory does not stretch back three years, rational thought would tell us that if Israel was already occupying Gaza, it would not need to re-enter it now.

Hamas complains there is no fuel for hospital generators, but there is enough to launch dozens of missiles daily. They can't supply milk for children, but manage to get explosives for warheads. The irony is that had they not been firing missiles at Israeli civilians, there would be no need for a siege. While Hamas spokespersons chant on YouTube about how they will kill Jews, Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, points out the need to integrate humanitarian aid with the military supplies coming in to Gaza. Paradoxically, more aid has come to the Gaza population from Israel than from its own leadership.

The people of Gaza have been hostages of Hamas far too long. They have had weapons depots placed in their mosques and homes, knowing this puts them at risk.

When the Israeli army warns them ahead of time of what areas to evacuate (and when in history has an army taken such huge risks to protect civilians?), the leaders of Hamas hide in their bunkers and plead on the radio for the civilians to protect them by being human shields. As demonstrators chant across the world, it is indeed time to free the people of Gaza -- time to free them from Hamas.

Brings interesting points up doesn't it?

Thursday January 08, 2009
Do we really need these gadgets??

Do really need Dick Tracy watches that show us who we are speaking to? DO we really need 3-D television at home?

The much smaller Consumer's Electronic Show  this year is introducing more crap we really don't need. The probalem is that young people feelt hay need them and so will go into debt for them at a time that is bad to do so.

Sony and Samsung are going to put out new televisions that provide smoother looking action scenes, 3-D capabilities and internet connections that can download movies, weather data and screen savers. Do we really neeed these things? Should people spend money on these things....OF COURSE NOT.

MattelInc is releasing the Mind Flex. This is a toy that comes with a brain scanning headset, so that when wearing it you can concentrate and a fan spins up to levitate a ball. When your thoughts are relaxed the ball goes down. This fall you get to waste a whole $80 on a piece of crap toy that only is made to take the mortgage money from your pockets. Let's show Mattel that we are not all sheep.

Nvidia Corp. is going to waste your money by selling you $109 dollar glasses that turn compatible monitors into 3-D displays. Oh yeah, baby, you really need this one. I bet putting food on the table would be more satisfying.

At least Niclas Tesla will be happy to know that his wireless transmission of power is being used for such mankind elevating ideals as charging your cell phone and laptops.

Thank God that most peole will realize that there are better ways to spend your money. This better way is, rent, food and clothes andything else is purely superficial.

Thursday January 08, 2009
Another bailout request...from the porn industry

“The take here is that everyone and their mother want to be bailed out from the banks to the big three,” said Owen Moogan, spokesman for Larry Flynt. “The porn industry has been hurt by the downturn like everyone else and they are going to ask for the $5 billion. Is it the most serious thing in the world? Is it going to make the lives of Americans better if it happens? It is not for them to determine.”

Francis said in a statement that “the US government should actively support the adult industry’s survival and growth, just as it feels the need to support any other industry cherished by the American people.”

Okayyyyy! The porn industry is probably one of the most recession proof businesses going. Mr. Flint is just being a bit funny here asking for $5 billion in bailout money for the porn industry. It's a nice publicity ploy and I do believe he is trying to make a point.

Too many businesses are trying for bailout money when they should consider consolidating with other similar business. GM and Chrysler should combine into one company to survive. Maybe more US banks should merge as well to survive. Bailouts don't help if you put people out of work so they can't spend. More people losing jobs will only escalate the recession and not help anyone. Let's hope that the new president to be in the USA will be able to turn things around as quickly as possible. It is also time for money hungry corporations to stop putting crap on the market that we really don't need that causes people to go into debt trying to own all the stupid needless toys they produce.

Tuesday January 06, 2009
My 2% worth

Just my 2% worth on this idea of bailing out banks. SCREW THAT. They want public funds and then they go ahead and raise credit card interest charges. Talk about greed. Once again I say SCREW THAT!!!

Banks have a Messiac complex. They truly believe that like God they can squeeze blood from a stone. SCREW THAT!!!

Okay I'm finished.

Tuesday January 06, 2009
No Communion fo Obama voters

This is a piece of older news. After Obama was elected a South Carolina Roman Catholic priest told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because he supports abotion.

This is the type of thing that causes me to be embarassed to be Catholic. This guy is an a-hole and any other priests who belive in this are a-holes and I say this with no reservation. GOD GAVE US FREEDOM OF CHOSE!!!! Remember that little goody. So who are these men (not gods) that can override what supposedly was said by God in our Catholic beliefs? They're a-holes that's who.

54% of Catholics voted for Obama. Now, I propose that the church not give them Holy Communion...I also propose that those 54% don't attend mass on Sundays and deprive the good Church of their funds and then let's see how long that little diddy holds. When will religions learn that they are here for the people and that they are public servants. They are not my boss, I am their boss. If  I and millions like me don't attend Church....guess who loses...not us. I bitch about Islam and then I have to put up with hearing this bull sh*t.

I go to church when I feel like it because it is there, for me and I get from it what I want. I feel pretty strongly about the religion but really it is my interpretation of Catholicism I accept because I feel I have moved beyond the teachings. I feel I have come into contact with my God in a different level but I do so within the established religion why....because I was told I have free will and I will do with it what I find more helpful to me. If the Church were to push this religious agenda then I would not be attending it or other religions any other time real soon. So there!!!

Tuesday January 06, 2009
Another good video on women's rights with Ghada Jamshir

I found this video interview quite good as well as illuminating. Kudos to Ghada Jamshir for standing up for rights.

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Tuesday January 06, 2009
Important videos by Walfa Sultan...listen carefully

Wafa Sultan, is a woman of Syrian birth but came to America in 1985 and now she talks about what Islam does to people. She tries to make the Western world understand the problems that Islam will cause the world. She fears that we will have to face the hell that she and others like her faced in the Arab world.

These videos are very nicely done. Watch and learn a bit more.

Click Here WAFA SULTAN ON SHARIA LAW AND AVOIDING IT

">Click Here Karadhaoui vs Wafa Sultan

">Click Here Wafa Sultan -Terrorism and Islam

">Click Here Wafa Sultan and  Shaker Al-Nabulsi on Glenn Beck Show

Tuesday January 06, 2009
Gaza

So the stupid crap in Gaza and Israel is escalating....SURPRISE.

I really wonder sometimmes how mankind be so bright to make such great discoveries and we still don't have the brains to be peaceful with each other. We are nuts. Saying that of course will do dick. Why, because there are people in this world of races and religions who seem to make it their sole purpose in life to use their religion to dictate to everyone else in the world. Their  faith is the only true faith and by Allah, God or Jehovah they will force you to believe it even if they have to blow themselves up or force others to blow up their own accolites.

The worse thing is that there are normally sane people out there who fall for this claptrap. They actually feel sorry for these ass wipes when they cause other countries to attack them. They try to tell us that we should leave these poor people alone, all the time forgetting that these ding dongs start this sh*t.

Israel has tried almost evrything to help Gaza become a state and they even give those citizens medical help when it is needed. They want to be able to live on their land and want the Palestians to live theirs. In Israel itself they have Catholics, Muslims, Buddists and others living and working without prejudice. Can you blame them for retaliating when they are attecked constantly by a government that insists that  the 'dogs and pigs' of Israel have to leave their homes. Yup, I can see the Israelis packing up their bags right now and moving away, just for terrorists.

Come on people stop feeling sorry for the people in Gaza. They elected the Hamas and now they got what they voted for. If they don't like them anymore then rebel against your own terrorist government. If they did that and got killed then yes they should get the sympathy of the world and help to overthrow the mini evil empire. Until the crying and weeping peoples themselves try to stop thes a-holes then I really can't seem to give a damn and neither should anyone else.

Look, I feel bad, really bad that children and innocent civilians are being killed, but they have to do something to stop this because until they do they can expect to see more innocents getting killed. The change has to start with the people themselves and if their religion promotes this type of crap then they should reconsider staying with it. No one should put up with a religion that promotes evil, killing of innocents and children, blowing oneself up for the greater glory of Allah. They must believe that their God is really a bloodthirsty entity. Why would you believe in a God that asks you to kill yourself;  kill your children, demean women and your own body. Well, until this type of thinking ends the sympathy will be hard to come by from yours truly and others who feel as I do. STOP KILLING OTHERS AND WE CAN TRULY ACCEPT YOUR BELIEFS. Yes, I'm shouting so I can be heard over the bombs falling.

Tuesday January 06, 2009
Helping the economy idea

Today, I read a letter to the editor with a nice suggestion on how the government could help the economy. The writer suggested that the government forgo and return any income taxes collected for 2008. This is so the tax payer can go out and spend this money on cars and other product and this would help the business world stay afloat without giving them bailout monies. Sounded good to me. Then friend Rob went and said that people would either use it to pay debts or bank the money and the economy would not be helped. This sounded possible so I quickly countered that instead of giving the money back to the taxpayer, the government could give vouchoirs worth the value of hte tax to be returned for 2008. Now these vouchoirs would be used only at retailers or anyone who sells  product. The store owners would exchange them with the government for cash. These could not be deposited or exchanged to pay off any debts. The other good thing is that the government would not have to return all the cash at once but only payout when the vouchoirs were submitted. This would give them use of the money collected from taxpayers as not everyone will exchange them at the same time.

I thought this was a good idea. So anyone else out there think it is a good idea. Let me know by e-mail at info@thestarlite.ca  I would like to see what others think about this.

Sunday January 04, 2009
AWE-INSPIRING lecture that you must hear.

This is one of the most inspiring videos I have seen and I want you to watch it because we can all use something to inspire us in this day and age. I think you will be amazed as well. Enjoy!

click here

Sunday January 04, 2009
Okay this is a combo pack of bits and bytes

Well, I gotta tell you, I was really surprised to hear that VIRGINITY PLEDGES made by teenagers don't seem t work.

"Taking a pledoesn't seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior," said Janet Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. "But it does seem to make a difference in condom use and other forms of birth control that is quite striking."

No sh*t!!! Who was the genius who came up with this anyway. It must have been the Catholic Church....my Church. Well I can't say the Church always made the brightest moves.

Drug makers halt branded gifts to doctors

See, we all knew that those drug companies bribed doctors. I guess this is a small admission of guilt.

The U.S. drug industry has agreed to stop giving branded gifts like pens to doctors to counter the idea they unduly influence medicine, an industry group says.

"It's not just the pens -- it's the paper on the exam table, the tongue depressor, the stethoscope tags, medical calipers that might be used to interpret an EKG, penlights," Dr. Robert Goodman, an internal medicine physician at New York's Montefiore Medical Center, told The New York Times.

"Practically anything you can put a name on is branded in a doctor's office, short of branding, like a Nascar driver, on the doctor's white coat," said Goodman, founder of No Free Lunch, a non-profit group that encourages doctors to reject drug-company giveaways.

The voluntary moratorium, drawn up by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America to start Jan. 1, still lets drug makers underwrite lunches for doctors and their staffs and sponsor restaurant dinners for doctors, as long as the meals are accompanied by educational presentations.

About 40 drug makers have signed on to the code, the industry group said.

Last year, besides giving doctors nearly $16 billion in free drug samples, drug companies spent more than $6 billion on sales activities such as doctor office visits, mealtime presentations and branded pens and other handouts, healthcare information company IMS Health Inc. said.

NOW DO YOU THINK YOU DRUG COMPANIES COULD STOP TRYING TO GET KIDS TO TAKE CHOLESTEROL LOWERING DRUGS TO PREVENT THE POSSIBLE FUTURE INCREASE IN CHOLESTEROL LEVELS. Yes I am shouting I want them to be able to hear me over the cha-ching of their cash registers. Hey parents use your diminishing brain power will you.

Doctor used human fat to power car

So someone finally found a good use for all our fat around our tummies....read this...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (UPI) -- A former Beverly Hills, Calif., liposuction doctor used fat from his patients to create biodiesel fuel, an investigation discovered.

The strange origin of the fuel Craig Alan Bittner used to power his Ford sport utility vehicle and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator was revealed during a state public health department investigation into allegations that he allowed his girlfriend and his assistant to perform unlicensed surgeries at the clinic, Forbes.com reported Tuesday.

The liposuction practice, Beverly Hills Liposculpture, closed its doors in November.

"The vast majority of my patients request that I use their fat for fuel -- and I have more fat than I can use," Bittner wrote on his defunct Web site, lipodiesel.com. "Not only do they get to lose their love handles or chubby belly but they get to take part in saving the Earth."

Forbes said California law forbids the use of human medical waste to power vehicles.

Several former patients have filed lawsuits against the doctor, claiming he allowed his girlfriend and assistant to perform procedures, causing mistakes that left the patients disfigured, said attorney Andrew Besser, who represents three of the former patients.

However, Bittner left the country after closing his office in November. He wrote on his clinic's Web site that he was moving to South America to do volunteer work in a clinic.

I will not comment further on this one.

Goldfish survives 13 hours out of water

Sometimes little miracles can make one's day. It shows sometimes just how special life really is. Read this....

GLOUCESTER, England (UPI) -- An Englishwoman says she was shocked when her goldfish survived at least 13 hours out of water.

Barbara Woodward, 61, of Gloucester said she spotted her goldfish, which had last been seen in its tank at 11 p.m. the previous night, at 7 a.m. on the floor behind a chest in her home, The Sun reported.

Woodward said she had trouble moving the chest and left the fish, named Ginger, where it was because she assumed it was dead.

However, she said she was shocked when she returned home at 8 p.m. to find Ginger alive and flapping around on the floor.

"I can't believe it. He looked lifeless and I had planned on burying him. It's a real Christmas miracle," she said.

A Gloucester veterinarian said goldfish usually die with minutes of leaving the water as they cannot breathe air.

---Isn't this amazing. Life sometimes can be a stubborn thing.

I received this nice song and slide show that people of ages should watch and take note of...it is special...watch it at... http://parentswish.com/site01/big.html
I think it will give most of you pause to think.

Hasn't it been great to see gas prices go down so much. I'm sure it will go back up but maybe not as much since gas consumption has declined world wide. Ride more bikes, walk more, use your scooter and roller blades and maybe we can keep the cost down longer.

Sunday January 04, 2009
I'm not finished yet...more bits and bytes...only these are diamond shaped

First true blue roses unveiled in Tokyo

TOKYO (UPI) -- The world's first true blue roses were unveiled at a Tokyo flower show after 20 years of research and a $30 million investment, flower show officials say.

The blue flowers, which traditionally signify mystery or attaining the impossible, go on sale next fall, the company that developed them said.

The blooms are genetically modified and implanted with a gene that simulates the synthesis of blue pigment pansies, The Daily Telegraph reported.

The creation of blue roses -- long thought impossible -- was masterminded by the Melbourne, Australia, Florigene biotechnology subsidiary of Suntory Ltd., a Japanese brewing and distilling company.

The company hopes to open up a global market for blue flowers worth more than $300 million, the Telegraph said.

In 1991, the team won an intense global race to isolate the gene responsible for blue flowers and has since developed a range of genetically modified flowers expressing colors in the blue spectrum, as well as breakthroughs extending the vase life of cut flowers.

Previous blue roses have been created by dyeing white roses, since roses lack a gene to produce delphinidin, the primary plant pigment that produces true blue flowers.

Other so-called blue roses have been bred by conventional hybridization methods, but they have been more lilac in color, flower experts say.

Besides blue roses, highlights at the International Flower Expo Tokyo include glow-in-the-dark roses that have been genetically modified to light up in the dark, the Telegraph said.

----$30 million bucks to make a blue rose....hmmm!!! $30 million bucks to help feed some starving kids...well I guess the starving kids could eat blue roses. Skewed thinking I tell ya.----

Germans are developing 'cognitive' cars

KARLSRUHE, Germany (UPI) -- German engineers say they are developing a software program that will, for the first time, help several cars coordinate their movements to avoid an accident.

Scientists said the software allows vehicles to form a network via car-to-car communication.

"In dangerous situations, the cars can independently perform coordinated maneuvers without their drivers having to intervene," said Thomas Batz, who developed the software with colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing and Karlsruhe University.

The so-called cognitive automobiles are equipped with integrated sensors such as cameras, GPS and radar systems and continuously transmit current position and driving information to a car designated as group coordinator.

Sudden dangers, such as a child running onto the road, are recognized not only by the car directly affected, but also by the group coordinator. If the car in question can neither brake nor swerve because there's another car on the lane to the right, the group coordinator orders both vehicles to swerve to the right in a coordinated maneuver to avoid an accident with the child or a collision with one another.

Although the system is still under development, the scientists said its group formation function has already been implemented.

---Now if we can just find some cognitive drivers. Driver education would help but then why bother if machines can do everything for us, right? Some of you might be interested in the Zager and Evans In The Year 2525  song...

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive they may find

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine's doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa-oh

In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day

In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again, whoa-oh

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old Earth can give
And he ain't put back nothin', whoa-oh

Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through

But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find

In the year 3535 {fade}

Yup! I used to love this song; I still do because it's so true. Oh, and remember this was written in the late 1960's.

U.S. supercomputer now world's fastest The Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at the U.S. Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest open research supercomputer. Oak Ridge engineers increased the system's computing power to a peak 1.64 petaflops -- one quadrillion mathematical calculations per second -- making Jaguar the world's first petaflop system dedicated to open, as opposed to classified, research. Scientists said they have already used the upgraded Jaguar to complete an unprecedented superconductivity calculation that achieved a sustained performance of more than 1.3 petaflops. "Jaguar is one of science's newest and most formidable tools for advancement in science and engineering," said Dr. Raymond Orbach, the Energy Department's undersecretary for science. "It will enable researchers to simulate physical processes on a scale never seen before, and approach convergence for dynamical processes never thought possible." ---WOW!!! Can you imaginae how fast this computer is. Hmmm....TERMINATOR or MATRIX anyone. Boy are we gonna get f*#&ed some day. We let machines do to much today but the digital natives (all children born from the eighties to present) will not know any other way. Too bad. ...and to make this even more scary....imagine electronic monsters that never need recharging....well...read this... Self-powered devices may soon be possible U.S. researchers say they are utilizing materials known as piezoelectrics to move science closer to self-powering devices, such as cellular telephones. Texas A&M Professor Tahir Cagin and his team say they've made a significant discovery in the area of power harvesting -- a field that aims to develop self-powered devices that do not require replaceable power supplies, such as batteries. Specifically, Cagin and colleagues at the University of Houston discovered a certain type of piezoelectric material can covert energy at a 100 percent increase when manufactured at a very small size -- about 21 nanometers in thickness. And when constructed bigger or smaller than 21 nanometers, they show a significant decrease in energy-converting capacity. "When materials are brought down to the nanoscale dimension, their properties for some performance characteristics dramatically change," said Cagin. "One such example is with piezoelectric materials. We have demonstrated that when you go to a particular length scale -- between 20 and 23 nanometers -- you actually improve the energy-harvesting capacity by 100 percent. "We're studying basic laws of nature such as physics and we're trying to apply that in terms of developing … better performing engineering materials," he added. The research appeared recently in the journal Physical Review B.

Sunday January 04, 2009
Bits and Bytes from last year.

Mother wants right to breastfeed...

All the big stink in Ontario last November about a mother wanting to breast feed her child in a pool with women only there. I don't understand what the heck that was all about. THe womwn has the right to bare her breasts in public so what is the difference if she breast feeds. Ontario law allows women to walk around topless in public at any time and in any place unless they are advertising something. I did not hear what happened when it went to court. Let me know if you heard anything.

COALITION GOVERNMENT

I was out of the country when all tis happened. Simply put on my part, I am all for a coalition government. I would like to see what it can do. I mean how much worse could they screw things up. Harper has been wrecking everything anyway. He's an arrogant ass trying to pretend to be Mr. Nice Guy. Yeah, right. We see how he keeps to his principles and promises as he tries to stack a Senate he promised to abolish and turn it into an elected entity. Hahahahaha! To all of you who feeel for his load of cow manure. Now if you all elected me I'd straighten things out. I'd promise to do what I want and quickly move to turn Canada into a good wholesome dictatorship...oops, I guess Harper has been trying to do thatt we weren't really paying attention were we?

Stir over talking doll's 'Islamic' message

Some Canadians returned a talking Fisher-Price doll to retailers because among its sounds is a phrase that sounds like Islam is the light. I told you they would get into everything. Anyone know if they were all pulled off the market or did the Muslims buy them all.

North Korea claims it will denuclearize

Hahahahaha!! April Fool's. This should be interesting to see. Another gag on the old Western World.

Snowy December

Wasn't it a nice snowy December. I had lots of sore muscles after all that snow. I loved watching all those storm watches as the news made it look like a catastrophic event was happening. It's Canada people...we get snow...lots of it. Why haven't you learned to accept it and learned how to drive in it. Get a grip.

When I was  kid I went to school in 10 feet of snow....uphill on the way to school and uphill on the way back home at night and I did it barefooted and with a sweater on. We all survived.

I used to make great snow forts and snow caves and a ton of snow shovelling money that allowed me to buy comics all summer long. Speaking of which, why don't kids come by to ask me to shovel my snow. I guess you parents are giving them too much money to stay home. Most kids could make 20 bucks an hour shovelling on snow days. They could make money while getting plenty of exercise with their entire bodies instead of just getting exercise on hteir fingers with their video games. Parents are too protective nowadays. I find it really sad when I see all my neighbours shovelling snow while their teenage kids stay inside on their 'puters. This is truly sad and not that their parents do it but the fact that these kids are so selfish that they don't even come out to help the parents. Times they are a changin'.

Controlled pill camera is created.

ST. INGBERT, Germany (UPI) -- German scientists say they've created a pill containing tiny cameras that, after being swallowed by patients, can be steered and even stopped in the body.

Similar pill cameras are now available, but they are not controllable, making them unsuitable for examinations of the esophagus and the stomach, the researchers said. For such examinations patients still have to swallow a rather thick endoscope.

But now with engineers at the manufacturer Given Imaging, the Israelite Hospital in Hamburg, Germany, and Imperial College London, and researchers from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering have developed a control system for the camera pill.

"In future, doctors will be able to stop the camera in the esophagus, move it up and down and turn it, and thus adjust the angle of the camera as required," says Fraunhofer team leader Frank Volke. "We have developed a magnetic device roughly the size of a bar of chocolate," he said. "The doctor can hold it in his hand during the examination and move it up and down the patient's body. The camera inside follows this motion precisely."

Since this article came out I saw it used in a television medical show and I believe it is being used in limited situations in Ontario. I'd rather that shoved down my throat over that half inch camera I choked on. hope it can be used in the lower quadrent as well...I hate the idea some not quite flexable tube shoved up the ol' nether regions. Yah, for science.

Study: HIV began about 80-100 years ago

TUCSON (UPI) -- U.S.-led scientists estimate the human immunodeficiency virus began spreading between 1884 and 1924, about 30 years earlier than prior estimates.

Led by University of Arizona Assistant Professor Michael Worobey, the researchers discovered the world's second-oldest genetic sequence of a strain of HIV known as HIV-1 group M. The sequence was recovered from a lymph-node tissue biopsy taken in 1960 from a woman in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The oldest known HIV-1 group M genetic sequence is from a 1959 blood sample of a man also from central Africa. The scientists said a comparison of the 1959 virus and the 1960 virus led them to conclude the genetic divergence between the HIV sequences required more than 40 years.

The researchers said they also used other HIV-1 genetic sequences to estimate probable rates of the evolution of the HIV-1 group M strain. According to their calculations, HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924 -- about the same time large urban population centers were being established in west-central Africa.

That, said the scientists, is also the region where the HIV-1 group M strain is thought to have emerged.

The study appears in the journal Nature.

...and here I thought the CIA created the stuff. Well live and learn.

Scientist warns of 'digital dark age'

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (UPI) -- A U.S. professor says an unintended result of our rapidly digitizing world is the potential of a "digital dark age" where information could be forever lost.

University of Illinois Assistant Professor Jerome McDonough says the issue stems from the mass of data being produced -- at last count, 369 exabytes worth of data, including electronic records, tax files, e-mail, music and photos. An Exabyte, he explained, is 1 quintillion bytes -- a quintillion is the number 1 followed by 18 zeroes.

The concern is much of the data we produce today could soon become inaccessible. "After all," McDonough asks, "when was the last time you opened a WordPerfect file or tried to read an 8-inch floppy disk?"

He said according to the National Archives Web site, by the mid-1970s only two machines could read data from the 1960 U.S. Census. One was in Japan, the other in the Smithsonian Institution. Some of the data collected from NASA's 1976 Viking landing on Mars is already unreadable and lost forever.

"If we want information to survive, we need to avoid formats that depend on a particular media type," he said. "When the old media dies, the information dies with it."

---HEHEHHEE!!--- It's called paper you doorknobs. Ink and paper it's been around a long time. Sheesh do I have to do all the thinking around here???

Sunday January 04, 2009
ICEJ Statement and Appeal regarding the Gaza conflict

I just received this letter and I thought it needed posting. You know I fully expect Arab Muslim groups to protest and bitch about what is happening in Israel and the Gaza strip but I was really surprised when I saw Annie Lennox protesting against Israel's bombing of the Gaza strip. I didn't hear that she protested against the Gaza while they were bombing Israel. I guess she has more love for bomb throwing terrorists like the Hamas but has no love for bomb firing Israeli's trying to keep their people alive. Shame, I liked her.

Well here is the article to read for yourselves.... Click Here

Sunday January 04, 2009
Me

So did you miss me?

Probably not. Sorry not to write in such a long time I was busy, I didn't feel like it and I was just tired of it all. In September was off  at the Toronto International FIlm Festival, then I started teaching and then it got into the holidays and this blog was the last thing I wanted to do...besides all I did was bitch and I was tired of bitching. Still am but I'm going to try to get back into my old cantankerous self again. So beware, it's 2009 and we'll have lots of bitching to do.

Friday July 04, 2008
Hollywood and it's handlers are crazy !!!!!

I understand the need for copyright protection but sometimes Hollywood seems to forget that they also need the internet which of course is not very good at protecting copyrights.

Read the article that I have linked to below and then comeback if you want. This concerns the courts giving Viacom (Paramount Films) the ruling to receive the viewing logs of Google members. This is of course to do with the $1 billion dollar lawsuit that Viacom launched against Google who own YouTube.

VIACOM GETS GOOGLE'S USER LOGS

VIACOM SUES GOOGLE

Anyway, as much as I hate to see the landscape change (us older folks hate change), I have to say that Hollywood is so tight assed that change is not in their vernacular, unless it can make them money but only on their terms.

Basically they have to learn that the advertising field has changed and event hough they own certain copyrights, they have to make some leeway because if the internet community decide to take it's revenge on them it could hurt the bottom line. The internet gives the studios and entertainment industry a lot of help and free advertising but do these guys appreciate it...no they don't. Their trailers play everywhere, tv show clips are all over and what do they do they get upset and want to sue those that are in acutuality helping them.

My own personal example is one of the reasons that Viacom is suing Google, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are at the forefront of this suit. Here is my own little story and I'm sure you all have similar stories. I never watched either of these two tv shows until I saw some clips on YouTube. Now I am a regular viewer who watches their show and their commercials...so tell me how did this hurt or steal anything from Viacom. Did it hurt them or help their viewer count increase? How did it hurt them. The clips shown are not full episodes, they are only clips that entice those watching to track down the shows on television and watching them...SO HOW THE F**K DOES THIS HURT THEM?

What should be interesting is what John Stewart and Colbert are going to say when deposed and when they are in court. Both these guys have said that the clips on YouTube helped their shows and did not hurt them which means more money inViacom's coffers.

The problem here is the stubborness of the old scrooge Sumner Redstone the owner of Viacom and Paramount. This guy is stuck so far up the as*hole of Old Father Time that he does not know how to navigate today's internet culture. The younger guys that work for him will do whatever this old coot says and will spend all his money to keep him happy and to keep their jobs. As long as Redstone is alive Viacom and Paramount will live in the medivael ages.

The smartest thing to do is for Google to ask all it's members not to upload anything...and I mean anything from Viacom and Paramount. not only will this be safe for Google but it may also show the Hollywood evil doers what can happen without YouTube.

May Viacom, Paramount and Sumner Redstone crash and burn on the internet highway.

Monday June 23, 2008
George Carlin---SAVING THE PLANET

With the passing yesterday of comedian GEORGE CARLIN I thought you would like to see a video where he speaks about us trying to save the planet. I always found this bit to be the most important thing he said about our life and place on this planet.

Carlin makes it clear that we are only part of this planet and that we are really doing nothing to save the planet because it does not need saving. The Earth can take of itself. Evolution will make animals and anything it wnats extinct while at the same time it adds new life forms daily. Somehow we seem to believe that we can really do something to stop "global warming" andeverything else we think is wrong. The Earth will take care of itself. When it is time to go we will go and nothing can stop it as long as we live on this planet. So all we can do is try to do our best but we have to forget trying to repair what we have no control over. When the earth gets tired of noxious fumes from pollution it will cause destructive storms to clear itself or it will not make more oil. It is really out of our hands. We are not as powerful as we think.

Go and listen to the video and learn the truth by clicking here.

You can read Geroge Carlin's obituary by clicking here.

Thursday June 12, 2008
ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES

Yeah, you remember those ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMAOTES movies, don't you. I think there were four. Tomaotes turned vicious and attacked people. Now it seems the juicy, little red buggers are trying to poison us with samonella. Egads, what has this world come to...real Killer Tomatoes or is it Killer Twomatoes.

Look I can understand restraunts and fast food places stopping the use of tomatoes out of fear BUT...I saw...BUT....the real evil tomaotes are from the USA...so I SAY...so why have these eateries stopped serving tomatoes. What,  Ontario doesn't grow those pulpy red orbs. What the food industry has no clue how to ask farmers, Syco Foods, Bruce Edmeads and other suppliers to bring them ONTARI-AIR-IO freshly grown and vine ripened tomatoes.

Shame on you food industry types for depriving us of tomatoes on our foods just because they don't want to buy Ontario Tomatoes. Maybe a few well placed complaints to the franchise owners and holders will wake them up. THese Canadian outlets should be ashamed of themselves for this outrage. It is no wonder our farmers are suffering. Maybe we should not just complain but we should make it clear that we will only purchase our burgers at places that serve Ontario tomatoes. Maybe that will make them get of their asses and buy Canadian. Dumb asses!!!!

Thursday June 12, 2008
Why do immigrants feel they do not have to abide by Canadian values??

My favourite Muslim reporter at the Hamilton Spectator, Tahir Aslam Gora, tells it like it is once again. This time he writing about Canadian values and how we allow our government to undermine them.

Tahir comments on the new bureaucratic report by Charles Bouchard and Charles Taylor releases in Quebec. This report is trying to emphasize the importance of Candians trying to understand the immigrants culture rather than urging the immigrant to understand Canadian culture. Why the governments take this route is a total mystery to me and leaves me perplexed. Why do they insist that we try to understand their culture? If I go to another land I try to understand their culture. I do not insiist they understand mine. As an example, I have been going to Mexico for vacations. I like it, but I do not go down there expecting them to learn the English language, instead I am learning Spanish. It is my duty to learn their language and culture, not theire to learn ours. Why do Canadian governments insist that we should learn the immigrant culture. I do not see any news coming out of Mexico saying that immigrants moving there are trying to  change the country to the immigrant way of thinking. I do not see the influx of Cnadians and Americans moving down there trying to change their way of life. So can someone explain why the Canadian governemnets want us to adapt ourselves to the immigrant's way of life.

This is total hogwash to put it politely. When people leave their country they do so to get away from what they had back home...whether it be wars, famine, poverty, bad politics, terrorists or whatever. Why would they want to come here and try to impose their obviously atrocious standard of living  and problems in our culture. If they like those things so much then stay or go back to your country of origin with all it's problems, I certainly don't want them here. Let's face it those immigrants that come here and try to get the government to force us to understand their culture and ways are here to cause trouble; to overturn our governements, behead our MPs (that's a whole other topic) nad turn Canada into their homeland, ways, religion and everything else. They want to take over Canada and we politically correct are asissting them in their endeavours, like sheep tot he slaughter. These are the few. The rest want a peaceful life.

So like Tahir states in his article most of the immigrants coming here do not want to live life like it was back home. Muslim women don't dream of wearing burkas and they like that they are allowed to drive. Not all Sikhs want to flaunt the laws and insist that the should be able to ride motorcycles with helmets. Muslim men are not looking to create prayer places in the corridors of their workplaces. They all wnat better for their children and families. They did not want to die in their countries of origin; they came to find peace and very few want us to understand their culture by force of government edicts. For God sakes they left countries full of governemnet edicts to find a better life. So why does our government try to force this crap on us?

As I see it most immigrants want a peaceful life and they can teach us about their way of life without government edicts. Caribana in Toronto helps Cnadians understand the Carribean way of life. Ethnic festivals with their food, dnace and clothing and more teach us about their cultures much more effectively than force. I know I like going and learning more about other cultures (especially the food). I do so not by force or edicts or because I am trying to be politically correct but because I want to. While I am there no one is trying to convert me into their ways of thinking or religion, they just want to show us their community and that is where understanding begins by pleasure not force. Maybe govenrments should help ethnic communities put on more shoes and festivals instead of wasting millions on stupid, idiotic reports.

Mr. GOra said one thing that you can read about immigrants. He asks why is it only the Sikhs, orthodox Muslims as the only immigrants to this country tha thtey try to cowtail to. You do not see Latinos, Filipinos, Europeans and Chinese try to force us to their way of life. Hell, there  certainly is no pushing from Chienes, the largest group of immigrants in Canada. So why do we put up with a vocal few Muslims who are trying to change our way of life?

To end this I would like to say that Canadians and their government can do a big favour for true law abiding, peaceful immigrants that would make Canada their home. There is a great need for Canadian security and police forces with government co-operation to remove and deport all immigrants who are vocal in the insitigation of violence, terroism and social unrest. If they are heard or recorded spewing  their venom or act in ways that could cause violence or social disruption then they should be instantly deported...no comfy Canadian jails that citizens have to pay for. Let them go back to their homelands and spout their bulls**t there. Canadian citizens and immigrants alike would be much happier. Just in case you think I say this about political and religious zealots like orthodox Muslims, then let me make this perfectly clear...machete wielding, gun toting non-citizens such as Jamacians, Vietnamese, Russians, Americans, Catholics, Italians, and lower Slobvians should also given a polite ride to the airport and escorted back to their homeland and never, ever be allowed to set foot on the true north and free nation of Canada. There finished.

Now to read Mr Gora's article CLICK HERE.

Wednesday June 04, 2008
Sex change and OHIP

I have absolutely no problems with anyones sexual orientation as I believe the God made them that way, and they did not chose their sexuality and more then the rest of us did. BUT....when it comes to the government health agencies paying for sex change operations then at that point I put the old foot down and say no. This is a cosmetic operation and not necessary. If you wnat the opertion save the money and then have it done , just like women who have breast implants.

OHIP has reduced so many important heath services to save money and then they spend it on something that is not life threatening. They took away much needed payments for eye exams and reduced chiropractic benefits among other things, for what so they could afford to change someone's sex. This is not life threatening. They want it, then let them pay for it themslves.

Wednesday June 04, 2008
carbon tax

Wednesday June 04, 2008
corporate traitors

Has anyone else out there come to the conclusion that corporations that move their operations to countries like China are traitors to their homeland. They are helping to destroy their home countries where they are incorporated. The sad thing is that the governments of Canada and the United States allow these turncoats to help destroy our respective countries.

Now, don't get me wrong if these corporations want to leave our country and incorporate in another country and operate there that's fine. When they ship to our countries they can then pay to export their product into our homelands. Until such time if corporations undermine the stability of their homeland then they should be considered traitors. These corporations by moving their manufacturing operations to China may make more money but they are destroying our peoples moral and way of life and most importantly their jobs.

How long can the people of Canada and the USA continue to purchase products unless they earn a reasonable income. If this keeps up then these two countries may become the new third world countries of the world. This was a fear that was batted around in the eighties and now it seems closer to reality.

Corporations are so vile that in their quest for money right now that they are helping destroy our food supplies in the quest to turn out bio fuels. This is causing a worldwide food crisis, and,  do corporations even care? Of course not they just care about making the bucks, not about whether the people of the world can afford food or not. After all they pay themselves well so they will be able to afford food and rent. You on the other hand are just a way to fill their coffers. This is a traitorous action to their countries.

Understand that we can not force  corporations to stay in these countries but if they wish to continue these economy destroying operations overseas maybe it is time for the government to remove their corporate standing in these countries. I am not sure of the legal ramifications but that is something for our governments to work out. All I care about, as do the countless of workers who will be out of work over the next few years, is that these practices are ground to a halt.

I can not see how good corporate citizens and good companies incorporated in our countries could possible be so cruel, cold and heartless to knowingly help destroy our way of life with their constant need to earn greater amounts of money. If this is something they do not care about then at that point they become traitors to their homelands. It is as simple as that.

Companies like Walmart, Nike and countless others have absolutely no regard, so it seems, about the way overseas workers are treated and the pathetic pay they receive. So, how can it be expected that they give a damn about the people in their homelands. The $ sign is all they seem to care about. You and me are insignificant to them. We are just purchasing machines that they exploit until we, the machine breaks down. When this happens they will simply  move on to other countries to treat those people like purchasing machines; all for the sake of their god, the almighty $ sign.

Maybe we should make ourselves clear to our governments that his has to stop. When election time comes that is when we need to make it crystal clear with our votes. Let us push our governments to change the laws controlling the creation of and the protections that corporations now enjoy. We might be able to make a difference that will save the future for our children and grand children.

Friday May 23, 2008
Book exposes Islamist agenda in the West

Good old Tahir Aslam Gora, The Hamilton Spectator Pakistani reporter once again exposes some of the extremist Islamist secrets...event hough the don't make a secret of their tactics. I even watched a CBC program last night that showed how Islamist terrorists promote and recruit Muslims into their ride of terror and war on the Christian and Jewish world population. It made it pretty clear that we can bury or heads in political correctness but things are not good for us. They want a holy religious war and one way or another they are going to get one. Myself, as much as I hate the idea, believe this will happen sooner than we think. It just takes one or a series of misteps and boom it's off to war we go and it will not be a pretty war.

Back to the book by Tarek Fatah, CHASING A MIRAGE: THE TRAGIC ILLUSION OF AN ISLAMIC STATE.  Click on teh title to open up the artilce from The Hamilton Spectator and read it. Tarek Fatah is going face to face with Islamists in Canada and around the globe. This book is a challenge to the growing number of Islamic radicals in Canada who really have the plan to turn Cnada and the USA in Muslim countries. If you think this is not true than someday you will be in for a rude awaking...a bad one. Islam demands that Muslims do this. Look Christians went around the world forcing Christianity on people in new worlds so we can't take the high road here. We have to understand that if we were capable of it then why do politically correct people thingk that this will not happen here. This is an Islamists job; they believe inwhat they do and that's fine in a way, but why are we so insistent on helping them by not recognizing this fact. We have to take off the blinders.

On reading the article you will that the history Islamist states since the beginning of Islam has been filled with corpses and bloodshed throughout the century. It doesn't take a genius to see that they are still doing it today. The immigration of Muslims throughout the world has only allowed them to grow over the years without their natural homegrown predators that maintained the status quo. When they moved into the world they grew and continue to grow in incredible numbers and began spreading the Koran and violence to their host countries and still we let ehm try to have their own laws and lifestyle. They have not intention of conforming to our society, they want us to conform to their society. Now if they want that society in their homelands, fine but why are we letting them have it on our homelands.

This article about the book will show you some interesting facts that will enlighten and scare you. I especially to note of this line..."Political correctness and liberal guilt over historic colonial abuse in the Muslim world can easily blind western leadership and society to the anti-social agenda od radical Islam."

Being of European ancestry as many others in the west I do not want to see what happened in the 30's and 40's in Europe, repeat itself in our new home. So all you liberals out there take note because as we older generations die out, your connection to these badtiems of the past will be a memory and you will not be looking for that wolf in sheeps clothing until it is too late and it sneaks up to you and bites you in the ass and proceeds to devour every part of you, you hold dear. Be warned by those that know becuase we will be gone and we won't have to live in a Muslim world, you will.

Friday May 23, 2008
Obama and stuff

My prediction is that Barack Obama will be the democratic nominee for president. Just thought I'd throw in my two pesos worth.

Oil prices suck. The truck has got to go, damn. But, hey somehow we have to find the money to keep buying because we don't want the oil and gas companies to go under. Heaven forbid that should happen. I guess that bringing in profits of $7 billion in the first quarter is not enough money for these poor almost out of business companies. It hurts doesn't it, when you are a consumer and the companies have you by the balls and ask you to cough up more money when they squeeze the delicate jewels. I hope some day we can return the favour.

Tim Horton's what can I say about their absolutely poor choice of managers. First it was the 16 cent donut and now the good samaratin story. You heard about the Toronto business woman who bought a meal for a homelss women and sat down with her in a Tim Horton's only to be harrassed by staff about not allowing homeless people to sit in the stores. This good woman bought a meal for the homelss person and she was told that that did not mean the same homeless person could eat in the store. This business woman was berated by a staff member. Apoligies were given but a good firing is in order but if this is a corporate command then Tim horton's should be fined somehow.

I urge people to remember to buy fruits and vegetables locally this summer and fall. DO NOT buy that crappy stuff from other countries when we have perfectly good product in our area. Okay, sure buy bananas and pineapples and such from other exotic locales but strawberries and peaches et cetra you should buy from our local growers. If you don't you should be ashamed of yourselves. Consider yourselves fruit and veggie traitors.

Hey if the airlines started charging us by our weight when we fly, I bet a lot of us would lose a large number of pounds to save money. I know I would. Come to think of it if we weighed less we wouldn't use as much gas in our cars and trucks. Four 250 pound men in one car have got to increase the consumption on those long drives to work or fishing trips.

Hve you ever noticed that the germs in television commercials for sanitary products keep getting bigger and bigger each year. They are becoming sci-fi movie proportions of late. Advertising companies will do anything tp sell us some of there not so useful products. Bleach and washing will do just as much good as lysol and them NASTY germs will be just as dead. Remember we live with these things and in most cases we only hurt ourselves by killing too many germs after all try to remember the punch line from WAR OF THE WORLDS. This type of advertising is...ready now....terrorist advertising pure and simple...they are meant to scare and terrify us into buying their products and give them our money to fund their future terrorist ads. There I said it.

Friday May 23, 2008
So much for public camera spy systems cutting crime

Maybe Big Brother doesn't help. It seems that 4.2 million closed circuit tv cameras in the United Kingdom have not even caused a blip on the graph of public safety. This video fiasco has only assisted in solving 3% of the crimes. What a waste of money. The privacy issues were just ignored and now the cameras end up next to useless.

Well at least some video company made a crap load of money selling the UK government 4.2 million camera. They spent billions of pounds setting this up. I just wish it was me who had sold them the hardware. Money for nothing and crime is still free.

I hope our city and our govenments learn from this and spend the money in better ways.

Friday May 23, 2008
About time

It's about time that the Myanmar Military government allowed aid to come to their devastated country. Can you believe that even a a disgusting government like this could hate its own people so much that they would let them suffer for weeks.

The cyclone took over 23,000 lives and it could go higher as over 41,000 are still unaccounted for. The military government was still only more concerned for it's soldiers and it's citizens. Maybe someday the citizen's might want ot return the favour. Maybe some kind government from elsewhere might just supply the citizens with the weaponry to kick these assholes out of their country and elect a democratic government. If there was oil there maybe the U.S. might go.

Ah well, lots has been said about this topic so I'll leave it at that and finish off by saying that humans in general can be such insane, cruel and savage animals. Yes we are animals.

Thursday May 22, 2008
Now I know!!!

Well now I know why they originally wanted to call it INDIANA JONES AND THE LOST SAUCERMEN.

When James Cameron made TITANIC I figured that the ending would involve aliens...so Speilberg must have heard me because here is the ending that I had in mind in an Indianna Jones film. It rocks!!!!

GO SEE THIS ONE...DON'T WAIT FOR THE DVD...DON'T PASS GO....AND DON'T DOWNLOAD IT OFF SOME PIRATE SITE....GO SEE THIS ONE AT THE THEATRE ON A LARGE SCREEN!!!

So there is my penny's worth of advice.

Thursday May 01, 2008
Speaking of stupidity

So the police really like to waste our money don't they.

Arresting two old guys for smoking pot is really going to damage the drug industry. The entire drug culture is no going to come crashing down. The world will change. Christ will finally come back to this planet. The end of days will arrive.

Our Hamilton police department has spent our precious city dollars to bust Walter Tucker and Michael Baldasaro for having less than 7 grams of grass. Ohhh!!! Stand back the the world is falling around the peacemakers ears...teh world will end for sure becasue of those 7 grams. 10 months of investigating two guys who have always claimed they smoked it. They run for Mayor every election for God sakes. Ten months of investigation to prove what every judge and attorney in this city knows. How f**k*ng inept is our police force.

I hated that law that gave the the courts the power to take property that was possible realized by profits from crime. Now I hate it even more. Taking these guys homes over 7 f**k*ng grams of weed is the most blatant abuse of this law so far. This type of abuse always happens when you give the government abusive powers. Personally I hope the supects of this major crime get a chance to sue the city and the province and get back their property and get o few million of our tax dollars. I figure we let this sh*t happen so we deserve to lose that money.

Major drug dealers and killers and even prostitutes are all over our cities and our big brave (yeah, right) police force go after two old guys for 7 grams of weed. I bet the majority of the officers that I really respect are walking around with their heads bowed in shame.

You just have to ask of the police chief in Hamilton..."Where the hell are your priorities?"

Thursday May 01, 2008
two pieces from the Middle East

I had to have a little laugh with two articles I've read that has to do with th Middle East. Those guys are really trying hard to keep control of the youth who would like to join the 21th century it seems.

First one: Saudi official orders haircuts for flirty men.

A governor in northern

Saudi Arabia has ordered authorities to punish men who flirt with women in public places by cutting their hair, local  media said Tuesday.Prince Fahd bin Badr, governor of the northern al-Jof region, ordered police to carry out the punishment after seeing a group of men with long hair pestering female students as they left school in the northern al-Qurayat province, Al-Hayat newspaper said.

It said the prince told a gathering at his palace in the northern town of Skaka on Sunday he has instructed police to apply the punishment to all youths guilty of flirting, including "the sons of senior military and civil officials."

"The decision doesn't include men who spend their free time in public places without hurting anyone," the paper quoted the prince as saying.

Saudi Arabia has long imposed a strict Islamic lifestyle in which men and women are segregated in public. That lifestyle is enforced by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, a government body that runs the country's powerful religious police.

Its members patrol public places to make sure women are covered and not wearing make up, the sexes don't mingle, shops close five times a day for Muslim prayers and men go to the mosque and worship.

Many clergymen in this conservative Gulf country say men should not have long hair because Islam prohibits the sexes from emulating each other.Sheik Mubarak al-Rushoud, head of the commission in al-Jof, told Al-Hayat the new punishment resulted from "the repeated pestering of women in souks and outside girls' schools."

He said Fahd has ordered that the punishment against the men "who emulate women" should be carried out at the scene of the infraction, according to the paper.

"The decision, however, doesn't include all men with long hair," al-Rushoud was quoted by Al-Hayat as saying.

Oooohhhh!! Can you see all those long haired men turning in women. This a bunch of crap isn't it. Better hope those Saudi's stay home and away from North America or they won't have enough scissors to cut all the long hair they find over here.

Second one: Now coming from Iran is this little tidbit.

Iran launches new crackdown on dress code offenders

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police will launch a crackdown next month on small companies which fail to enforce strict religious dress codes, Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The move indicates an expansion of a clampdown on "immoral" conduct launched last year against women flouting rules to cover their heads and disguise the shape of their bodies in public, in line with Iran's Islamic system.

"In the first stage, police will only confront companies ... that are active in small buildings or complexes," the head of the moral security police, Ahmad Rouzbehani, was quoted as saying.

Mehr said the move was "to prevent social damage" and the hijab, or veil, "should be respected". It said the campaign would start from around May 4.

Iran's religious codes require women to cover their hair and wear long, loose clothing to disguise their bodies in public, including offices where they may work with male colleagues.

Police sometimes check offices to ensure the codes are upheld and can shut them down. Some coffee shops have been closed after police said workers or customers were not meeting standards.

Restaurants and other public places often have signs asking customers to respect the Islamic Republic's dress requirements.

The enforcement of "hijab" has been a cornerstone of the Islamic system introduced after the 1979 revolution.

The crackdown against what clerics see as "corrupt" Western influence coincides with rising pressure on Iran by the West over its nuclear program. The United States and its allies say Iran wants to build an atomic bomb, which Tehran denies.

"Everybody, both women and men, just as they want financial and physical security, like to have moral security," Rouzbehani said, adding that police had urged people "to come forward with their reports".

In the past, crackdowns tended to be launched at the start of Iran's hot summers and petered out soon after. But last year's extended into winter and included a drive against tight women's trousers and even men with spiky "Western" hairstyles.

Those who violate dress codes are usually cautioned on a first offence, sometimes after a brief visit to a police station. But they can be held for longer, taken to court and required to have "guidance classes" after repeat offences.

Dress codes are most often flouted in wealthier, urban areas. Conservative dress is the norm in poorer, rural areas.

Well I guess this puts the idea that the Hijab is a personal choice. How many times have we heard Muslim women say they wear it because it is their choice. What bull. Women wear it because they have to and are forced to. obviously many are rejecting it and of course this threatens the male power base in Islamic countries. Eventually the religious leaders will lose the battle in the Middle East and in other parts ot the world.

Women who have been restricted for so long are learning like in the West that they can only be bound for so long before tehy realize the strength they have and eventually shed that crappy attire they are forced to wear and dress they way they want. Clothes do not affect your belief in any religion.

Let's face it, Islamic males have a good thing going and they don't want to lose it. They can secure that precious body of the wife they OWN and still be able to see the GOOD STUFF of the women of the West. They got good don't they. Aren't you glad you aren't born a women in and Islamic society?

One can only hope that those same religious leaders will get scared of the effect the Western attitudes has on their people and stop all emmigration from the Middle East to preserve their restrictive culture.

Haa..."it's our choice to wear the Hijab". Boy, I would I like to hear the Muslim women at McMaster say that without people laughing at them. Choice is something they would really have if they wore it going to the mosque but not going to school or shopping.

Tuesday April 15, 2008
Hero Hamilton Cops

Just a tip of the hat to the two hamilton police officers who helped rescue 56 seniors from a fire. A hand to Officers Brent Salmon and Mark Morelli for their quick thinking. On a drive to pick up a prisoner they came across a fire that was overtaking a nursing home. They quickly set off a fire alarm and proceeded, witht he help of staff to evacute all the seniors in the building. With the eventual help of the OPP and firefighters they got everything under control  but unfortunately the building was destroyed.

Sometimes it is hard not to believe in fate but when something like this happens you have to wonder whether things work out the way they are meant to or whether the chaotic nature of the universe just tosses the dice and ordinary people get put into the position to do the extraordinary. It takes a lot of courage to go into a fire with all the smoke. I've only been in that situation twice and each time it was minor. The smoke was the worst part and the days after of coughing up the residue in your lungs is not nice. So to me what these officers did was a brave thing and they should be applauded by every citizen of Hamilton.

As Police CHief Brian Mullan stated, "All of Hamilton should be proud of them."

I know I am.

Tuesday April 15, 2008
Stealing research from pirates...good idea

Stealing research from pirates...good idea

I read this interesting article today on the benefits that piracy has givent eh business and commerce around the world. Click on the url above and read the article based on a new book by Kermit Pattison.

It tells of many interesting things such as how the United States was actually formed through piracy of ideas. The best one is how much Microsoft is upset that it's new VISTA is hardly ever pirated while XP continues to be pirated. This is a worry for them because it means people aren't interested in it and therefore sales are bad. Read about how piracy in all quarters really helps companies improve, such as Nike.

I remember years ago when I was in the computer hardware and software business I went to a seminar where we learned some interesting things. We were told that TETRIS sold so many copies becasue there was so many pirated copies on the bulletin boards (the old internet sytem). They were glad it was pirated because it vastly improved their sales. If no one pirates it it means no one cares for the product.

Remember LEEMINGS that great game from the early 1990's. The company was really smart in it's ideas to promote the game. It was a great game and it sold like hotcakes. I sold many a copy back then. How did they do it? Well they releaseda version of it on the pirate boards where everyone thought it was the full game. Once you started playing it and you reached a certain level you were told that to see more you had to buy the game. It worked, people were hooked.

Anyway read the article and learn more.

Wednesday April 09, 2008
3D Disney movies...now there is a stupid idea

Disney has announced thaat will be releasing 8 to 10 children's films in 3D.

Ahh, guys have you been to a movie with young children? I take my grandson to see kid;s movies and I see how he and other children behave during movies...so...I have to ask are you guys insane.

1) 3D Glasses. Does anyone out there really belive young children will sit still while wearing the glasses. Come on. Kid's want to eat popcorn, sip their drinks, and look around at all the other children in  the theatre. THey may occassionally look a the screen. Okay they do look a the screen a lot but the problem with the glasses is that they require straight on viewing. fyou turn your head you will not see the 3D effect but a double image. This should cause many headaches even thought DIsney says the new glasses are so fiunely tuned that headaches will be rare. Sure they will be rare if you stare straight ahead. Children do not stare straight ahead.

2) Parents will try to watch the movies with the glasses on as well but they will always be trying to keep an eye on the children and if they go with more than one child they will be constantly turning their heads to watch their kids. So there goes the 3D effect and here come the headaches. Every time the kids hav eto go tot he washroom, off come the glasses and there goes the 3D effect. not to mention the annoyance of having parents walk in front of you when you have the glasses on. You don't see tehm until tehy are stumbling in front of you. Great idea this.

3) Drive-in Theatres. Okay everyone who has come late to a drive-in on a packed night and has had to park in the ends of rows? Ah, I see thousand so of you out there going....oh! oh! You betcha, bub. As I said 3D movies really are best viewed from a centre position. Has anyone gone to an Imax theatre to see a 3D picture and noticed that ALL THE SEATS are directly in line with the screen? They do this so the 3D effect works. If you go to a drive-in and sit at the sides or sit on the ground looking up then you ain'ta gonna see the 3D properly. Comprende??

4) Hopefully since the 3D films are in digital the option will be there to remove the second image so that non 3D versions can be shown at Drive-ins and at theatres for those who do not wnat to see it in 3D. Look I know that 3D with today's technology looks way better that the old red and blue glass tech from the past but films in 3D are going to be  a problem. I went to see BEOWULF in 3D last year and yes it was very good, even though lots of effects did not work as well as others BUT I had the misfortune having to sit 4 rows from the front. Everytime I turned my head I would see double images and I had to constantly look up. Eating the popcorn was sure difficult as well. I ended up removing the glasses a few times to just get my bearings and eat some popcorn. At those points I got to watch two misaligned images on the screen. Thrilling....not!

4) Whenever I see the 3D trend coming back to the theatres I realize more than anything that the industry is worried and the low boxoffice figures of late are giving them good reason to be in a panic. In the past 3D movies came out at a time when the industry was trying to bring lots of tushies to their comfy or not so comfy seats. This 3D trend nver lasted for various reasons but mostly because it quickly gets annoying. 3D is not natural on the screen and it never will be until they find a way to show them without glasses. This much touted trend to come from Disney, Dreamworks and all the others that plan on major 3D releases will quickly rewalize that failure is in their immediate future. BEOWULF in 3D did not exactly break any records. Sure SHREK 3D will do much better because it is a franchise and many will go to see it but the same thing happened in the last 3D craze in he 80's with Jaws 3D  and others...the customers came and went. The 3D effects did not save the floundering franchise. Even 3D sex films failed to work and darn it all if 3D sex can't sell an audience then what chance do kid's films have.

5) If Hollywood really believes that this 3D digital technology will save their asses...well guys think again. Hey I could be wrong but I doubt it.

6) The real reason that Hollywood producers want to do a lot of three dimensional films is probably because they believe that this may prevent most if not all of the off screen piracy that goes on worldwide. After all if the video camera sees the 3d effect it will be double imaged which will not be seen at home on the computers...without the 3D glasses. Actually businesses are already lining up to produce consumer 3D glasses for people to buy. They are even addressing the problem with people who wear prescription glasses by offering prescription 3D glasses that you can purchase. As to to piracy issue all they have to do is put a filtering lens over the video camera to eliminate one image and boom, you have a crappy off the screen image that you can barely watch.

Well there you go. So do you think that in the long run 3D films will be around more than a year?? I don't think so. I certainly don't believe children's films will be around too long but the more adult films will be. I certainly wouldn't buy any stock in this but if you do buy lots and sell quickly as well.

Wednesday April 09, 2008
gotta see a little skin???

There is a little thing that has always annoyed me and I have found many other people had the same thoughts. The reason I bring this up is that I had an interesting conversation with my barber who added a little insight into this little annoying thing. So I decided what the heck, I'll pass this on.

Every summer this little annoying thing tends to piss me off and now I know that it also annoys others as well, so here it is.

Summer time is beach time. We all go to the beach. We all wear bathing suits, the women wear bikinis and some even go topless since it is perfectly legal in Ontario. As it should be. Now mind you guys like be with that hanging over tummy should really consider wearing bathing suits from the early 1900's. Now here is the problem.

Every summer the beaches have attendees that are women who are dressed in full body covering while their husbands and male children wear regular bathing suits. Somehow this does not seem the right thing to happen. The Muslim men get to run around and stare at our wives and female children in beach wear while their wives are completely covered. Am I the only one here who sees this as wrong.

Muslim men must not really think much of our women as they are not supposed to be looking at the female body other than their wives. So how come they attend our public beaches? It is not right that this practice be allowed. I am not sayuing tha the park personelk should tell them not to come in but their own religious leaders should tell them not to attend public beaches, unless of course the clerics themselves see our women as nothing more than lowlife harlots who dress the way they do to to cause men to go towards the way of sin.

Now on to the story that my barber told me. First off my barber is from Iraq. He is Roman Catholic. It was interesting to hear that there are 40 million Roman Catholics in northern Iraq who live peacefully; practicing all the Roman Catholic traditions. He told me of a situation that happens every year during religious holiday celebrations. Now here is the interesting thing. It seems that whenever they had these festivities with their wives, children, relatives and friends they were very popular. Of course they were popular with the Catholics, but, they were very popular with the Muslim MEN. These Muslim men would attend the parties to see the women and drink the beer and wine. This of course is forbidden by Islam. This became an annoyance to the Catholics, especially the men. My barber and the other men began looking at id's before allowing people in to the festivities. It became a practice that if the identification showed the male to be a Muslim he was not admitted. The Muslim males were told that it thewy wished to attend the parties tha they should go home and bring their wives and children with them as they were no longer allowed to come in for their self gratification. It seemed tha tin time less and less Muslim men attended.

My barber also finds it extremely annoying to see Muslim men at the public beaches as he feels that like back home the men are there only to oogle the women. At least here in Canada they bring their wives to the beach, even though they are covered from top to bottom.

I often wonder what Muslim women think about hese situations and what do they think of the women in the Christian countries they emmigrate to. Do they seem to them as harlots or do they secretly desire to be like the women around them. Maybe when the Muslim women put their foot down and say enough of this inequality to the men maybe they can be treated with a little more respect outside the home and they may even discover that Christian men really don't give  arat's ass about what they are hiding. We've seen it before, we've been there, and really aren't that interested.

Final word on this is Muslim men please consider following your religion and stay away from our public beaches in the summer. Most of the Christian men would appreciate it. Now, if some of you Christian or Jewsih men out thee are saying that this doesn't really bother them, then I say to you, bulls**t it doesn't bother you.

Wednesday April 09, 2008
Corporations will not let it happen

You know, with a large population in the world who worry that Muslims will eventually overrun the world with their runaway birth rate may not really have to worry because of the nasty people that run big corporations.

Corporations will never allow the loss of their vast billions of income at the hands of Islam. It is obvious that that Big Corporation would have too much to lose if Islam became to big a problem. Many corporations would suffer.  The clothing industry alone would be in serious trouble (no bathing suits, no bikini's not sexy clothes, no hats, reduced makeup sales etcetra). The pork industry alone would be in total disarray. Dog food manufactures would suffer. Television, movies, books, free thought and the loan industry would really suffer. What about the alchol and liquor companies? They would eventually be gone.Islamists aren't supposed to have alchol. You can probably sit back and think of many more commercial enterprises that would suffer.

The population growth in both Muslims  and Chinese will eventually lead the two populations into conflict, especially now since China has become such a powerful manufacturing community dealing with big corportions around the world.

So there you go, big corporations will save the world from Islam...hey is this an oxymoron?

Wednesday April 09, 2008
positive thinking is helping

Wednesday April 09, 2008
Islam, what the west needs to know...the movie

Google is hosting a film right now that you should watch. The film name is ISLAM, WHAT THE WEST NEEDS TO KNOW . Click on the title to see the film. It is well over an hour long but if you are interested in what the history of Islam can mean to the west. Mind you the material is somewhat slanted by the Jewish side but real history is used to show the true violent nature of Islam in the past and how it effects the people of today. Islam, does not wish to come into the 21th century but there are moderates who would like to change this but since the principles are buried so deep in the writings of Mohammad that this will be a toough ordeal. Some day Islam has to be dragged kicking or screaming into the 21th century or there will be a clash of religions that will lead to conflict.

Listen to the entire documentary and try to understand that Muslims have little choice in doing what has to be done. We can only hope that those that wish to see change will succeed.

It isn't that the religion is a problem. The problem is how the clerics and fundamentalists translate the verses. When I looked at many verses I saw that the meanings could easily be distorted . The verses seemed to really say more about peaceful endeavours but you can see how easily the verses can be interepted in the ways of violence. Anyway listen and learn.

Thursday April 03, 2008
Never forget!!!

I received this little message today and I thought I would pass it along. It is self explanatory; if I have to explain it you then you been livin' unde'r a rock buddy. Or you is one of them there folk that don't believe...ya'all know who ya'all are.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This message is being posted as a memorial, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, Hundreds of thousands of Italians, the Romanian gypsy race, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered,massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian Peoples looking the other way!
 
 Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again to all of us.  Fanatics exist in every time period, let us do what we can to stop the one happening in our era.
 
 This message is intended to reach 40 million people world-wide! Please send off this url of the blog to others to remind them that when we sit on our buttts and let those who wish to harm us slow infiltrate our everyday lives we risk history repeating itself. To quote a certain people of a certain country and from around the world, "Never again." Let's make sure, shall we.

If you wnat to send it off as a email just try copying this blog entry and paste it to your email.

Tuesday April 01, 2008
x-ray specs Camera can see through clothing

When I was a kid all comics out there had that famous ad for x-ray glasses, remember those? Well now that have a device like it for use in the airports.

LONDON (UPI) -- Developers of a specialized camera that can help police detect weapons and drugs under clothing say they will show it off in England this week.

The camera, which can see through clothing at distances of up to 80 feet, could be used by authorities in such places as railway stations and airports, The Sunday Times of London reported.

The newspaper reported that while the T5000 system can detect objects under clothing, it does not show anatomical details. It works by detecting and measuring terahertz waves, or T-waves for short.

Because each object emits different wavelengths, the camera can distinguish, for example, between sugar and cocaine, the newspaper reported.

The technology, originally designed for use in spacecraft to see through clouds of cosmic dust, was developed by ThruVision, an English company.

"Acts of terrorism have shaken the world in recent years and security precautions have been tightened globally. The T5000 dramatically extends the range over which we can scan people," said ThruVision Chief Executive Clive Beattie.

The camera will be showcased at the Home Office scientific development branch's annual exhibition at an airbase in Buckinghamshire, the newspaper said.

Neat huh? Now maybe in time we won't have to take off our shoes at American airports.

Tuesday April 01, 2008
European panel condemns creationism effort

STRASBOURG, France (UPI) -- European lawmakers approved a report condemning efforts to teach creationism in schools, underscoring concern about an emerging socially conservative agenda.

Meeting in Strasbourg, France, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe members approved, in a non-binding 48-25 vote, a report that criticizes creationism advocate for potentially sacrificing children's education "to impose religious dogma" and to promote "a radical return to the past," The International Herald Tribune reported Friday.

The report said creationism, a belief that a supreme being created life and the universe, was "an almost exclusively American phenomenon" but some of its tenets had migrated to Europe.

Denying pupils knowledge of various theories was "totally against children's educational interests," the report said. Creationism supporters endorse "a radical return to the past which could prove particularly harmful in the long term for all our societies," the report said.

Believers of a literal interpretation of the Bible joined people who accept the theory of evolution as "the result of a transcendent will, an 'intelligent design,' " the report said.

It also pointed to a Muslim version of creationism, highlighting a Turkish cleric's work, "The Atlas of Creation," that was distributed to schools in Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland.

I find it hard to believe that people who believe in Creationism like fundamentalist Christians and Muslims have such a hard time believing that GOD could have the ability to create things in ways that are not in our scope of understanding. How can these people believe in GOD as the almighty creator and then proceed to deny him his abilities. HE can do what ever he damn well pleases in any order and manner he decides on.

I do believe that Creationism, Evolution and Itelligent Design should all be taught to every child so that they can use their GOD given right to freely decide on wish they believe. Why take away what was given us by GOD. Who are these priests, ministers, clerics and Imans to deny us what was given to us.

Grow a brain, you know the one GOD supposedly gave you and use it in the manner it was meant to be used...to think and make decisions for yourself. This has always been my biggest bitch with Catholics, Christians and Islamists.

I sure am glad the Europeans have put their foot down but I sincerely doubt that Creationism is purely an American export after all this is one of the basic tenents of Islam as well.

Tuesday April 01, 2008
nice thoughts

Tuesday April 01, 2008
Muslim cleric decries Facebook

I'm on a roll today. Here is another strange going on in Saudi Arabia which is probably teh most repressive Islamic society. It seems they are after Facebook. Here, look below and read the articel on this strange revelation. Only in Saudi Arabia you say...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (UPI) -- A Saudi woman's alleged death at her father's hands has been cited by a Muslim cleric in his criticism of the Internet social networking site Facebook.

The al-Arabiya Web site said the case was reported by a Saudi Arabian news site as an example of the "strife" Facebook has caused Saudi Arabia, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.

The Web site became the subject of controversy in Saudi Arabia after preacher Ali al-Maliki labeled it a destructive force against Islam.

"Facebook is a door to lust and young women and men are spending more on their mobile phones and the Internet than they are spending on food," he said.

The Saudi news site said the Riyadh woman was beaten and shot by her father after he discovered her engaging in an online conversation with a man on Facebook. The incident occurred last August but was not reported until rafter Maliki criticized the social networking site.

Yup, Facebook is causing all sorts of strife in the Arab world. Wait a minute. I'm not a fan of the silly Facebook, either. It seems that people saying stupid things on that site has gotten people killed, robbed and murdered. Nice site we have here.

Tuesday April 01, 2008
Unabashed plug fo myself.

Tuesday April 01, 2008
This is a surprise...Scottish Muslims: Ban forced marriage

This little article was surprise so I thought I would share. Scots are a people all unto themselves even Muslims one.

EDINBURGH, Scotland (UPI) -- Prominent Scottish Muslims are pushing for legislation that would allow the husbands of women forced into marriage to be charged with rape.

Relatives involved in the marriages could be charged as accessories, The Scotsman reports.

Bashir Ahmad, a member of the Scottish parliament from Glasgow, said he learned how common forced marriage is while serving on a local council. He said he believes criminal penalties would be a real deterrent.

About 300 forced marriages are reported in Britain every year, but authorities believe the actual number is much higher.

Osama Saeed, head of the Scottish Islamic Council, said the British Parliament has been reluctant to introduce criminal penalties, possibly because of arguments that girls forced into marriage would be less likely to seek help if they fear their parents would face prison. He said the law could be drafted to give victims the option of prosecuting.

"Creating new legislation now though, to deal with the incidents of forced marriage that do exist, will send out a strong message that this violation of human rights will not be tolerated," he said.

Way to go. Maybe everyone should remember that real good term...."human rights". Think China might learn it?

Tuesday April 01, 2008
Frank Frazetta

For those of you out there that enjoy Frank Frazetta artwork, I am recommending that you pick up the limited comic series from Image Comics, called Frank Frazetta's DEATH DEALER. The series was really good  and there are more coming. Ask the guys at Big B Comics or your favourite comic store for ordering.

Tuesday April 01, 2008
Well this suckc

CBC-TV announced that this fall will be the last season for ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FARCE. The comedy show has been on the air for 15 years and it is still funny. The show debuted on CBC Radio in December 1973 and boasted more than 600 radio broadcasts over 24 years before making the leap to television in 1993. Its last radio broadcast was in 1997.

The cast and crew were told that there would be a short 10 episode season in the fall and it will end with it's New Year's Eve show. Sad, very sad, I really enjoyed the show. I hope that maybe the Comedy channel picks up the show.

Tuesday April 01, 2008
Muslims Outnumber Roman Catholics

As I have said before in earlier blog entries, Muslims don't have to resort to any terrorist attacks to spread Islam. I have said that all they have to do is continue on their path and nature will take it's course.

Well it has begun already. The Vatican Newspaper reported that Islam now has more adherents than Roman Catholicism. For the first time in history Muslims have over taken  Roman Catholics and are no longer at the top. Catholics accounted for 17.4% of the world population which was a stable percentage, while Muslims were at the 2006 figure of 19.2 %.

Monsignor Vittorio Formenti stated, "It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer." All Christian faiths still make up 33% of the world's population.

The figures on Muslims was compilied by Muslim countries and provided to the United Nations.

So, see while Christians (and China) around the world have tried to follow the old 1970's call for reducing the population (it was called Zero Population Growth) to reduce the risk of over population and damaging the resources we have, the happy little Muslims have continued to propagate. Immigration of Muslims to safe countries where they were not constantly at war with each other has allowed them to grow as a population. I am not sure here if I am suggesting that Christians begin a WAR OF THE CHILDREN scenario because I don't know if the world could sustain such a growing population with it's dwindling, food and fuel resources. It is up to each of us individually to decide when it comes to the number of children we have. Abortion is one thing that we should reconsider except in the most limited of circumstances, my opinion of course. Well, there it is.

Monday March 24, 2008
Easter

Sitting in Church this weekend for the Easter services I did lots of thinking about what it means to be Christian. I had my usual good feelings that I am a Christian. The idea of a man chose to sacrifice himself for man's redemption is so special. Whether he was the Son Of Christ or not is unimportant. His belief in the ways of peace are so important. He wanted us to be peaceful and to treat all men and women with respect and love. This is why millions upon millions follow his teachings. Why would you not follow a man who preached this type of life.

Christ did not want you to kill in his name. He did not want you to force others to believe in his Truths by subjugating them or killing them or overpowering the enemy with armies or terrorist acts. He never held women in disrespect ot treated them any more different then men. He certainly did not promise sexual gifts from God for dying in His service. Christ wanted all of us to respect and love each other. This seems like a much better religion to believe in then ones that prompt hatred and killing.

Christians may not go to prayer 3 times a day or more to show respect for God. They hold this respect in their hearts whether they want to believe it or not. Buddists are the same, they hold this peace and love for mankind in their hearts. The Christian religion does not ask us to fight for our faith by destroying the life of others let alone the their own lives for God and prophets.

This is why I am so glad to celebrate the Easter season. It reaffirms all these beliefs and shows me why I should be proud to be a Christian, living in a Christian country with Christian values. It lets me know that the only time it is worth sacrificing one's life is  to protect those you love and the life you love. It shows me that you do not sacrifice your life because of hatred but for love.

So is there any doubts why YOU should be proud and happy to live in Canada or another Christian country? If we hold these truths in our hearts and we pray and want these truths for others, then we have to believe in them with all our heart. We have to want them so much that the Universal laws of attraction will give us precisely what we want for ourselves, our families, our friends and even for those who deny themselves the way of the Light and the real truth of love, peace and respect for our partners in love.

I hope you all had a Happy Easter and may the teachings of Christ help everyone who want and need them.

Monday March 24, 2008
Facebook hatred

One of the writers I read all the time in The Hamilton Spectator is Tahir Aslam Gora a Pakistanian  writer who seems to understand the need for Islam to come intot he 21st century. Tahir Aslam Gora tried to run a moderate Muslim language paper in Mississauga, I believe, that tried to bring Muslim and Canadian points of views together. Unfortunately, Islamic extremeists and extremist Imans threatened his advertisers until tehy withdrew their ads and causing the newspaper to fold. He did not give up and went to work for The Hamilton Spectator and live in Burlington. His writing tries to stress the imortance of showing and proving to Canadians that Muslims are regular people who want a good and peaceful life. He also writes that Muslims have to begin adopting themselves to our society and not isolate themselves.

On March 20, 2008 he wrote about something I was totally unaware of. It seems that facebook has become the in place for extremist Islamists to post and prompt their hatred of  Western civilization. Mr. Gora cites many examples of this hatred.

"Long live Taliban." "Brother Laden rocks!!! I know  someone in Canada who interviewed Him!!!" (I guess this idiot sees Osama as a diety, you'll notice he capitalized the first letter of 'him')

"Islam is the only way of life and ULTRA ULTRA SUPERIOR to all the religions...all religions are wrong and Islam is rite." Okay he doesn't know how to spell right...guy must live in the USA.

"Death to America and Israel"

"She should be killed at all cost. All she need is a bullet to the head." and the response "Plans are on their way for her, so don't worry just wait for a bit. We will have good news very soon." The target here is a Bangladeshi writer, Taslisma Nasreen who prompts changes to Islam.

Nasreen follows and believes in the writings of a Muslim dissident, Irshad Manji, a Canadian author of the book, THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM who believes in the need to remove Sharia Law and in making changes in Islam. They want her dead as well.

"She choose to be slut but her dad wasn't in favour of. Resulted in her death. Simple." This referred to the killing of the Muslim teenage girl, Aqsa Parvez, by her father because she would not wear the scarf on her head.

"I endorse the Taliban and extremist thought."

Mr. Gora points out that these writings were generated from Toronto, Hamilton and London, Ontario. He even points out that a Toronto area student used the internet to sugges that there should be attacks on Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil. If they person is caught they should deport the person to Iraq so they can try and kill soldiers over there, I'm sure that soldiers from both side will gladly put a bullet in the persons head, so that they can see first hand what dying is like.

Mr. Gora rightfully point out that they are taking advantage of OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION while trying to prompt violence against he very society that allows them to freely express themselves. They do not appear to see the differnece between this freedom and terrorism. Tough legislation is needed to deal with this. If these people are caught they and the people they live with should be sent back to their country of origin and if they are Canadian then they should be put in the Military and sent overseas to see what their beliefs are promoting.

Tahir Aslam Gora points out that many progressive Muslims like themselves have contacted the authorities with their concerns but the authorities do not seem to be too receptive or prepared to help these people with their concerns. They are not equipped with proper laws to handle these situations. The writer feels that dialog is important to help in this matter and also that we have to stem this trend towards political correctness that provides shelter to these radical Facebook writers.

Facebook should do something themeselves about this type of writing that prompts killing. It is  not good for Facebook to have this type of crap online. All these writers definitively do not have the happy thoughts to to attract the postive energey of the universe. I feel that writers like Mr. Gora are the ones that someday will calm the savage tide of Islamist terrorism and I will think happy and positive thoughts for him and his followers.

Monday March 24, 2008
If it wasn't so sad it would be funny

Can you believe that a famous killer needs such a ridiculous reason to kill?

Osama (not)Bin Laid has no better reason to kill the infidel dogs than over a bunch of cartoons that the, Christian/Buddist etc, world couldn't give a a flying (insert 'f' word here) about. If these terrorists and their millions of followers just do not want to realize that first we don't care about Mohammad, we only respect Muslims right to do care about him. Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of their prophet (?) but does not make it a killing offense. It says something about Islam when they do not want to depict Mohammad for fear they might fall into the depths of idolatry. Guys think happy thoughts and say to yourself  'we do not worship idols' and it's as easy as that. You know Christians have idols we look at and use as reference but I am not aware of anyone who actual worships some wood or metal in a shape of a cross. It is only a representation.

Cartoons are only insulting if you let them be insulting. For political cartoonists they are a simple way to stir emotions towards an opinion. Islamists who fear this depiction of their prophet are only insecure in their own religion because deep down they fear that if they see their religion in pyhsical terms then they might start to question their not so illustrious prophet. Islam should have more confidence in what they worship. If Mohammad is a strong belief it will survive ridicule or opposition becasue it is meant to survive.

As time has shown religions based on violence such as Norse, Greek and Roman mythology are easily replaced with religions that have prophets or leaders that preach peace. Why is this? Well, generally, you see people have an adversity to dying and seeing their family and friends die for some pagan god. Buddism and Christianity survives because it preaches peace. Sure, occasionally belief of even these religions will lead to death but only to protect the need to keep the religion peaceful.

Islam is based on violence, according to the extremist and the regular Muslims believe it is meant to be peaceful. Unfortuantely it is based on an origin of violence and like violent religions before it it will eventually collapse under it's own beliefs because you see even Muslims want a peaceful life and they do believe in peace, make no mistake about that. They just haven't been able to defeat the religious tyrants in their faith so that the religion can be modernized to accept the precepts of peace. Some things have to change. Misogyny has to end and the belief that the reward of dying leads to some kind of insane sexual reward. It is also necessary to stop Imans from telling their flocks that other religions consist of pigs and excrement.

Now deep down I believe it will eventually happen becasue if enough Islamists start to believe in the ways of a peaceful religion, then the Universal law of attraction will give them what they want. If they do not cease thinking that war and hatred is the only to win then the universe will grant them their request and they will attract others to fight them and hate them. They must get rid of these feelings to attract positive attention. Hating people because they published cartoons that mean nothing to the publishers and creators will only draw the universe to grant them more hatred and suspicion from the rest of the world. Men like (not)Bin (laid)en have to cease feeling that they are hated and disrespected or they will just continue to attract these feeelings and eventually those feelings will kill them.

Look at Dubai. Their belief in improvement of their society allows them to build a better future for their people. They live their religion and do so with the Western world coming to them. Vacationing men and women go their resorts and beaches and dress and act like the rest of the world. This certainly hasn't as of yet destroyed the Islam religion but sure as blazes has helped the economy adn garnered the respect of the West and Europe. See positive thinking has made Dubai well off and respected. You don't hear of any rioting in Dubai over a bunch of black ink lines printed on some simple pulp.

Osama go get laid already and think positive thoughts.

Wednesday March 19, 2008
Have You Seen This Man?

I watched the Rick Mercer show this week and he did a great rant that is something that everyone should read in our supposedly freedom of speech believing country.

Read the Mercer's rant below....

March 18, 2008

People who cover politics in this country, they know the name Ezra Levant. The rest of the country, they couldn't pick him out of a line-up. Which I always believed was a very good thing because, without a doubt, he is one of the most aggravating men on this earth. And I only say that because – in full disclosure – he happens to be a friend of mine. I've known him for over 10 years.

The last time I saw Ezra I was doing a show in Alberta. The audience, they were all conservationists, they were saving rivers. Ezra picked me up after the show for a beer. I walked out front, there was Ezra, leaning against his hummer smoking a cigar and, yes, the engine was running.

Which I'm sure he did purely for my benefit. The man is a provocateur, he is an agitator, and now thanks to the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, god forbid, he's a freedom fighter because he has been defending his actions in front of that tribunal for the past two years. He has no idea when it's gonna end, he has no right to a speedy trial, he has to pay his own legal costs, his accusers do not.

So what is it that Ezra did? Well he published the Western Standard; which, in my opinion, is a completely nutty magazine. He once published a column by a stay-at-home mother of nine who offered witty tips from her pastor on how to avoid your children turning out gay. But to be fair to Ezra, every time I'd complain he'd say the same thing: "You should write your own column. I'll publish it next week. Word for word." If nothing else, Ezra believes in freedom of speech.

Which is why I knew, when half the world exploded because some newspaper in Denmark published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, Ezra would republish those cartoons so we could see what all the fuss was about. Yes, it would offend people, but I knew he'd do it anyway. Because that's what Ezra does. But hey, it's a free country.

Well, it used to be. Since then, he's spent over a hundred thousand dollars defending his right to republish the cartoons. And his magazine – well, the irony there is they went out of business. The gods of the free market took care of that. Turns out, not that many people were interested in what the magazine had to say. So it's gone. But if we're not careful, if we force the Ezras in this country to shut up, our freedom of speech could be next.

I think it is easy to see Mr. Mercer's point isn't it? I don't have to come to your home and drill into you, do I? Freedom of speech is one of our greatest gifts in a supposedly free country. Let us make sure it stays that way, shall we. When editors or magazine  or television shows say things that may not sit well with some please have the courtesy to respect their right to say what they do. This is especially directed at hardline Muslims now living in democratic countries. Get used to it because we don't have to change, you do. Most already have, so join the crowd.

Visit Rick Mercer at http://www.rickmercer.com

Wednesday March 19, 2008
Odds and ends

1) Congratulations to Spectator reporter Ken Peters for sticking to his guns to refuse to reveal the identity of his informant. I'm glad the courts finally ruled in his favour.

2) Congratulations to the group of organizers of "Take Off The Veil" websites in the arab countries.  See the info below.......

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (UPI) -- Rival Arab Web sites and blogs are battling on the Internet over whether women in the Islamic world should continue wearing the veil.

Organizers of "Take Off the Veil" launched a March campaign calling the practice by strict Islamist groups a form of "intellectual terrorism," al-Arabiya reported Monday.

"Take Off the Veil" encompasses some 30 Tunisian, Arab and Coptic Web sites.

One of the campaign's leaders, Dr. Elham Manea, calls the veil "religious coercion" and says remaining silent allows extremist ideas to infiltrate Arab society.

"Women's veil is a political issue and an ideology Islamists use to garner support and reach power," Manea tells al-Arabiya.

Their campaign is intended to counter an initiative launched by the Digital Resistance Movement or Hamasna that highlights well-known women who don the veil.

Hamasna's Web site recently posted a picture of the wife of the Turkish president and praised her as being the first veiled woman to enter the presidential palace in Turkey since the secular republic was founded in 1923.

Well there might be some hope yet, at least the attempts have begun. Slowly but surely Muslims may be dragged intot he 21st century. This type of action will help more people feel that the Islamist religions are trying to turn around and enter the real world.

3) What local prostitute brothels in Iran???? See even Muslim's are human with human foibles. I love it. Check out the info below....

Tehran police chief found with prostitutes

TEHRAN (UPI) -- Tehran's police chief has resigned following his arrest after being found naked in the company of six nude prostitutes in a local brothel.

Reza Zarei stepped down from his post following the raid, reportedly ordered by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, chief of the judicial authorities, Ynetnews reported Wednesday.

Zarei has been in charge of enforcing the Islamic dress code on Iranian women to help with "moralizing of the city," the Israeli news agency reported. During the past six months, hundreds of young people were arrested for not honoring the Islamic code of behavior.

Rumors of the brothel incident had been rampant in Iran for the two weeks. Last week Zarei was replaced as Tehran's police chief after four years.

The arrest wasn't reported by any of Iran's official news agencies, Ynetnews reported. Farda News, associated with Tehran's mayor who is also a former police chief, broke the story.

Cool huh? Nice to see that the youth ofver in Iran can be just as rebellious as in other parts of the world. Seeing these things helps to make Muslim people less mysterious in the eyes of the west. Keep up the good fight.

4) Hey just like the police chief in the above article Governor Eliot Spitzer was a real moron as well. How can a person being in the limelight think he could escape detection in these type of things. Was it smuggness that he could get away with anything or just plain horny stupidity that would cause him to have his escort affairs??

5) Didn't  Barack Obama do a good job in his press conference the other day to offset the nasty little tidbits that poured out of his ministers mouth. He spoke beautifully and did not even distance himself from his pastor. Damn that makes him look pretty cool. I don't know, but, I think this may really help him win the Democratic  nomination. If he is the nominee then the chances are pretty certain he will end up as the first black president.

Read the article below about the minister....

Obama's pastor says 'God damn America'

CHICAGO (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's pastor has drawn increased scrutiny since the Illinois senator said his church is not controversial.

Obama's pastor, who has been the longtime leader of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, says that blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but instead "God damn America," ABC News reported.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has also said the United States brought on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with its own "terrorism," ABC reported.

Just days after the Sept. 11 attacks, ABC reported that Wright said the U.S. government brought on the attacks.

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Wright said on Sept. 16, 2001.

ABC said it found that Wright regularly talks on the treatment of blacks.

"God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme," Wright said in a 2003 sermon.

Obama this month said, "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial." As for the church's pastor, he said Wright is "like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with."

Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle and baptized their two daughters, the report said.

You can read the entire speech here so click away.

You can read a reponse to speech by clicking here.

6) Here is an article that some Christians still have a healthy set of balls....

First church in Qatar has low profile

DOHA, Qatar (UPI) -- The first Christian church in Qatar is trying to keep a low profile, with no bell, steeple or sign to announce that it is a Roman Catholic place of worship.

Our Lady of the Rosary has a huge potential congregation, The Times of London reports. The Vatican estimates that there are 100,000 Catholics in Qatar, most of them migrant workers from the Philippines. About 700,000 of the 900,000 residents of Qatar are immigrants.

The church is to be consecrated this weekend.

Christians in Qatar had to worship secretly until the government authorized the building of churches seven years ago. Saudi Arabia is now the only Muslim country that bans churches.

The Rev. Tom Veneracion told The Times he doesn't expect any problems.

"We tried to be discreet and I think there's an atmosphere generally in the Gulf that's fairly anti-Christian, but that's mainly to do with what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan," he said. "It has nothing to do with us at all."

The building, 15 minutes outside Doha, was built at a cost of about $15 million. It has no bell or steeple to advertise its function, The Times said.

Christians practicing their faith in Muslim countries is a good sign. Even though we can see that they the worshippers are still doing so on pins and needles. If you pray then make sure you throw a few words their way.

7) I see that the Canadian government has finally agreed to recognize Kosovo. I still think it was not a wise idea. This little thing could lead to something bigger and more deadly. I hope not.

8) Under the title of utter nuttiness. A mayor in Sarpourenx, France has threatened reidents with severe punishment if they died because there is no more room in the cemetery. The 260 residents were told that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish." 

The ordinance  added, "Offenders will be severely punished."  Yeah sure, so if they die they get punished by being brought back to life, right? Now this 70 year old mayor is really hoping to get re-elected. Sure they might even elect the Easter Bunny. Nuttiness is rampant isn't it. Ya just gotta love it.

9) Have a Happy Easter folks and remember to go to church, you heathens.

Wednesday March 19, 2008
New commandments for the Catholic Church

Read this letter to the editor today in the Hamilton Spectator by a Celynne Hinzmann out of Caledonia. She has the right idea, so let's read what she wrote....

Re: ' "New" sins sign of times' (Editorial, March 12)

I'm so relieved the Catholic Church has revised the commandments.

Given the state of the world, it's clear we needed some further instructions.

I was just hoping they'd sound more like this:

1. Thou shalt not adhere to groups that spread hatred, bigotry, fear and war in the name of a supernatural being.

2. Thou shalt not confuse religion with morality or righteousness.

3. Thou shalt not actively stifle the advancement of human rights, the knowledge of the universe or the responsible maintenance of the environment.

4. Thou shalt not seek to control others by pretending to have some form of connection to a being that can and will control their fate.

5. Thou shalt not indoctrinate children into blind acceptance of anything, nor discourage them from questioning any information they receive.

6. Thou shalt not use public money to finance any faith-based interest group, no matter the guise they use.

7. Thou shalt not allow delusions that fly in the face of all evidence and reason to be used by self-serving, power-hungry hypocrites to rule the world.

Oh well, maybe next time.

So what did you think. I feel her suggestions made better sense than the Pope's new co-called "commandments". They are just plain good common sense suggestions when it comes to religion and the ways of the world. They make more sense then passing off the converservation of uel as a commandment like the Pope did. But, as she said, "oh well, maybe next time."

Monday March 17, 2008
the secret

I just started watching THE SECRET. This secret is the Law of Attraction and it is all about attracting to yourself what you are thinking about. Think bad, defeatist thoughts and theat is what the universe will give you. Begin thinking of positive things, the money and happiness that you want and the universe will give it to you. This is because if you think of negativity then that is what you will attract from the universe but of course if you think of what good things you want, how you want that special house, the good money et cetra then you will attract these things form the universe. It is simple and makes good sense. I am going to try to live by this attitude and see what happens. I will say more on this as time goes on but if you wnat to hear more grab THE SECRET, book or video and try it yourself.

Since I was a great believer in the power of the universe before I saw this it isn't a stretch for me to accept. Deep down it makes sense to me especially since no one is trying to sell me on it by me sending $29.99 for the secret of life, happiness and getting rich quick schemes.

More to come...stay tunes for updates.

Hey if this really works could you see the potiental it could have if everyone believed with all their hearts that the world peace can come to us. Wouldn't it  be a gift from the universe?

More later.

Monday March 17, 2008
Thrills, spills, excitement and more tidbits

1. Bravo to the brave people of Tibet. Thay are standing up against the great Chinese firebreathing dragon to get their country back. This will not be an easy task especially now that the Chinese are cracking down on protests before the Olympics. I have never had the feeeling that the Olympics and politics should be mixed but I did dedest the idea of the Chinese having the Olympics because they seem to me a country that does NOT have the best intentions for mankind let alone their own people. Now may be the time for all the countries around the world to come to the aid of Tibet by putting pressure on the Chinese government to release Tibet and allow it to be it's own nation. Though I am loath to mix the olympics with politics, this is the time for the world to put some pressure on the government to do the right thing. China can not afford to lose face with these olympic games and it might just comply to make the games go smoothly. Some of the atheletes may just decide to pull out in support and again that will not be good for China. It would be nice but the situation in TIbet will probably get a lot worse. CLICK HERE for more.

2. I read today that scientists have finally been able to make blind mice see again. This will of course be applied to humans with macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy which have caused total blindness. I am not going to get into the specifics so go to the article by CLICKING HERE.

3. Former Hamilton councilman Marvin Caplin wrote a great article in the Hamilton Spectator about the Israel-Palestine situation. It is the best article with some simple solutions which unfortunately religious bigotry and hard headedness will never allow the implimentation. If both the Jewish people of Israel and the Muslims of Palestine could just see how simple their solutions could be they would be a showplace for the Arab world to imitate. If only the people of the world could get along. Oh well read the article by CLICKING HERE and see what you think of Caplin's suggestions.

4. Some people i film circles are saying that the STAR TREK franchise should be put to rest. Why? Well it seems that all the optimistic and simplistic views that Star Trek is famous for is to outdated and not relevent to today's society. Well you certainly see that that idea is one generated by today's pessimisstic and nilihist youth who are surrounded and beseiged from all corners of life with war, bribery, killings, cheating and violence in all forms of media. It's no wonder they can not comprehend the views in Star Trek. We as adults lost our sense of wonder of the world as we grew up from the flower power era and became greedy and interested only in what was good for us. We have led by example but the youth should remember that in the past the young were the ones who fought for a better and more peaceful world. Today the youth are too busy with their computers, electronics and violent video games to give a crap about the way the world runs. Maybe if Canada and the US were visited with real violence in Tibet, China, Serbia and the Middle East then maybe they might scream for changes in the world. It seems though that they are too busy playing out their violent tendencies to care about the simplistic views of Star Trek. A shame really.

5. Conservative leader Stepehn Harper, our Prime Minister is an ass. What would possess him to even consider suing the Liberals and Dion for libel over statements made in the House of Commons. This secretative guy is wacko and if  we elect him back in then we are just as screwed up as him. This idiot wants the House of Commons to be run by methods that would  cause others to shout suing for libel conditions. Worst of all he is suing them with your and my money. if he is suing then it a personal chose and he should pay it himself out of his pocket. Mr. Harper this is no way to run a government. Your threats and silencing of your the MPs are reminicent of Facist governments, what next are you going to slowly start putting the oppostion in jail. No wonder the Air Farce comedians always show you as a robot because you have a machines cold logic and unable to think like an intelligent human.

6. I read that people should pay kids to shovel their walks when it snows. BWWWHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!! Yeah right. This will happen when they can start doing it while behind the controls of a video game and shoving fast food down their throats .In the last twenty years I have had only two kids come to the door to ask if they can shovel for pay. Remember when most of us used to make stashes of cool cash in the winter to buy our goodies....ahh those were the days. It sure kept us in shape.

Friday March 14, 2008
I don't care!!!

Here is a letter that has begun making the email rounds. Thanks to Thom for this one. Real or not it sure points out a lot of truths...like it or not. The ending ids especially right on the button. Read it all below.

Thursday March 13, 2008
Show them to me

I'm going to take a chance here and be funny. Well actually I'm going to direct you to a video to watch. WARNING: It is for adults only even though I personally feel nudity is better for children to watch then excessive violence but hey what do I know after all God gave us the nude body and man gave us the violence. Hmm which one would God have us worry about.

Rodney Carrington sings the song at SHOW THEM TO ME . Be patient while it loads. I wouldn't watch this at work with the sound on of course.

The reason I'm showing this is because I feel that if, maybe, extremist relgious Islamic fundalmentalists would watch this stuff then maybe they wouldn't have to martyr themselves to get their 79 or whatever virgins when they die and go to heaven. This is probably why Osama is wacko, he probably hasn't seen any in his life and is waiting to go to heaven to see the goodies. I know it isn't completely funny to think that people kill themselves but hey, maybe if they watched more of this type of videos they wouldn't have to be so nuts. The ability to watch  and listen to this song, I believe is what  makes us better people. Now if we can concentrate more on this then we could ignore war and killing. Nah, ain't gonna happen in our lifetime. To many religious fantactics in all religions who think we should not admire the thing of beauty that God sculpted but instead we should cover it up and then chop it with weapons of violence. Yup, make good sense to me.

Okay the video should have loaded by now, so enjoy.

Thursday March 13, 2008
Religious tensions in Malaysia

I get some comments of why I sometimes say that the stronger religion of Islam will eventually be a dominating world religion along with Buddism. I've said this because I believe that if it is left unchecked it will do so by it's ever increasing population. Now along come an article that can drive this point home to you.

You can read the article and weep by following this url Religious tensions in Malaysia .

Malaysia was a country with diverse religions for many centuries but since World War 2 the Muslim population slowly grew to the point where it has overtaken the Buddists and the Christians by sheer numbers and it is now the official state religion. As Islamists grew so did their political power and now Christians and Buddists. When you read the article you will see the changes and then ask yourselves if it can't happen in North America or Europe. Sheer number is power, that is all you have to remember.

Thursday March 13, 2008
More bits and pieces

1) Congratulations to Hamilton's Eugene Levy. He will be  receiving the Governor Generals's Award on May 2 for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. Good work my man.

2) Lionsgate  Films has struck a deal with Apple to release digitized versions of their films that can play on Ipods and other similar devices. With dvd sales slowing down this is a smart move on Lionsgate's part. The first releases should be 'Rambo' and  'The Eye'. If you can't get people into the theatres and you can't get them to buy dvd's then what better way to get the customers cha-ching. Theatre prices are too high and the food costs too much but theatres can't survive without it but the way the economy is going with fuel prices always increasing and food cost about to go skyhigh distributor's and film makers are going to feel the pinch and I'm sorry to say but people would rather buy clothes, food, fuel and be able to pay their rents over going ot a movie. Todays now generation doesn't even really care about the size of screens and the great sound so these things will slowly become obsolete as the the draw to see movies. The new 3-d films coming will not really help in the long run either. It is a despearate attempt to bring in audiences. It didn't work all that great with the 3-D BEOWULF film this summer. It only made $83 million since opening in November.

People will pay a good price if they can stay home and see the films when they want to, so yes Lionsgate has made a wise choice. I'm sure others will follow soon.

3) I'm not Serbian so I'm not invested when I say Canada should not recognize Kosovo as a country. With the situation we have here with Quebec we really do  not want to give them a precedent to throw in the face of the rest of Canada. It seems to me that Serbia has a right to maintain the part of the country where their orgins are as well as the seat of their religion. I sure hate to agree with Russia nd China but in this case they are right. The US is wrong on this one. Oh, wait the US is wrong on another one, those wrongs sure keep piling up don't they.

4)Normally I am behind the work of Amnesty International, but theis time I have to ask, "Are you nuts, have your heads been filled with chocolate pudding?"

Why should Afghanistan prisoners  captured by Canadian soldiers be covered under our country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They aren't Canadians and should be turned over to local authorities, even if there are reports of torture. Canada should look into this and try to make sure that the prisoners are not tortured but we certainly should not try to impose or rights on them, not until they become Canadian citizens of course. Then they can come over here and take advantage of our sytem until while they try to cojole us to go along with their antiquated laws they they are escaping from in the first place.

Good work on Judge Anne Mactavish for denying their case. If Amnesty  really wants to help these people try getting them to first change their religion into one of peace and not extremes and misogynistic laws. It's time for Islam to come into the 21st century and them maybe the killing and maiming and torture will stop. Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms will not help them do this. When Islam decides what is more important they'll change things until then we sit back and watch.

4) Referring to the above item. Yes their is a movement of Muslims around the world that are trying to force Islam into the modern age. The best of  luck to them for being so brave.

5) Diet drinks, you know sugarless pop. Tha empty calroed drinks we pour down out throat to try to lose weight. Ahhh, it isn't going to work if you are eating processed puff pastries with it and eating greasy fries and burger with at it either. I used to do this and I drank so much of it that I ended up in the hospital with caffeine overdose. I took up drinking root beer and ginger ale after that one. Oh, and don't drink Barq's root beer because the friendly folks at Coca Cola put in caffeine to addict you to their product. In the US even Mountain Dew has more caffeine then Coke, not in  Canada, fortunately.

Listen people pop is just coloured sugared water that has NO BENEFITS whatso ever and when we sold it in the drive-in we sold it to make money not to help your health, we sold juices and milk for that.

The article I saw in the Hamilton Spectator today said it correctly when they said that if you indulge in soft drinks you will be at higher risk of developing kidney stones, and a slightly higher risk of heart disease and not to mention weight gain. The caffeine also helps you excrete more calcium, not good as you get older. The artifical colouring can cause itching, hives and even bahaviour changes.

When I was really busy working I started up diet cola drinks again and drank very little other pops so I got the pick me up I needed to get going. I gained a ton of weight, I got a kidney stone, and I even ended up in the hospital with other things. I stopped those drinks on aregular basis and I have lost weight become healthier but some of the other effects will never go away. I'm sure that like my doctor, yours will be more that glad to give you sorts of pills to help you out and make your life even more miserable. Choice is yours. Drink more tap water, milk, soy milk, rice milk, almond milk and booze, but only a little okay. Don't drink and drive.

That's it for now. Have a nice day.

Thursday March 13, 2008
More about smoking in cars

The no smoking in cars with children in them is still stirring up a bit of tension. Read a letter to the in The Hamilton Spectator this morning from a Ken Hill. Now Ken is a non-smoker but he feels that the Ontario Liberal Party has "...committed, with their half truth policies, the most profound, betrayl of trust, ever perpetrated in this province." Harsh words.

Mr. hill believes that this type of control and elimination of rights from smokers is the foundation of facism. Harsh words again.

He quotes Ayn Rand "Under both systems, (facism and communism), sacrifce is invoked as a magic omnipotent solution in any crisis - and 'the public good' is the alter on which victims are immolated". I'm not quite sure how he wants us to take this statement. Now the first thing I mentioned is that he is not a smoker and yet he seems to care enough about our freedoms to bestow upon us his words of freedom. Now, I have to ask where was he when the government forced children to wear helmuts when riding bicycles, isn't this imposing on their freedoms or is he saying that only the adults should have those freedoms. Where does he stand on the injection of capsules into childrens arms that act as gps devices? I'm not going to list all the crap that governments dump on us to protect us from terrorists, smokers, bike riders, tobbagonnists, car accidents and so much more but keep in mind that they do this for 'our' good.

Nah, I don't like this crap either, and I detest the rules that the scared-sh*tless US of A has imposed on it's citizens and I hate the fact that I have to wear a seatbelt, and I definitely hate the idea of having microchips stuck in anyones person or belongs to track their whereabouts as they are about their day to day business. It stinks of Orwell's 1984 but darn it all sometimes we do this to ourselves. While I want my kids and grandchildren to be free I also want them to be protected from harm and there is where I become pulled in many different directions. You see I hate the direction the government is going just like Ken but I also worry about the lives of children. If parents were doing their job properly then maybe the government wouldn't step in. If smokers had even an iota of intelligence they would realize that they do not have the right to inflict possible diseases and death on their children by smoking in the car with the little ones in it. They are just plain brainless. They are inviting the governments to step in to make up for these puffers witless behaviour. Parents should have put helmets on kids heads without the government saying so but we don't do the sensible thing because deep down we know that nature will take it's course. This means that those that are meant to die or be hurt will be, no matter what we use to try to protect them. Survival of the fittest, the cullying of the weak in the herd is something primal within us and we try to protect our young ones from these situations. Unfortunately as Ken says when we try to do this we invite fascism in governments. I will not say that communism would ever be a result but facism, yes. It is happening all over more and more with gps devices, cameras on the streets, monitoring of our travels and more are all possible steps to facism. We just have to decide are we willing to risk the health or death of our citizens or do we want the freedom to hurt or be killed to protect the freedoms we have from facist governments. Remmember that fascists governments do not just suddenly take over, they are slow infiltrators into our lives just like Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Castro. The choice is yours because we still have the freedoms to vote and spout out what we believe....FOR NOW ANYWAY!!!!

Friday March 07, 2008
Eli Stone

I just want to make a recommendation for all of you.

I strongly suggest you watch ELI STONE a new series that began a few weeks ago. This show is a really nice peice of work and I really like the actor who plays Eli (Jonny Lee Miller).

From the website:

Is it possible to change life midstream and get back to who you are at your core? From Greg Berlanti (Brothers & Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money, Everwood) and Marc Guggenheim (Brothers & Sisters, Law & Order, The Practice) comes a story about a lawyer who finds himself at a crossroads between the man he has become and the man he wants to be … even if that means being a prophet.

Driven by ambition, Eli Stone (Jonny Lee Miller, The Flying Scotsman) has built a successful career at a top San Francisco law firm in representing the biggest and richest corporations where "screwing over the little guy" is common practice. After experiencing a series of odd hallucinations, including a crooning vision of George Michael, Eli turns to his neurologist brother, Nathan (Matt Letsher, The New Adventures of Old Christine), only to be told there is nothing wrong with him. As the visions persist, he's anxious to find the cause of his delirium and seeks the help of Dr. Chen (James Saito, I Think I Love My Wife), a Chinese acupuncturist who specializes in holistic medicine. Though skeptical of his practice, Eli finds Dr. Chen can help him recall important memories from his past.

Eli's visions continue to intensify and begin to affect his practice, relationships and how he is perceived. But it's not until Eli puts his own life in peril that Nathan recognizes similar episodes their father shared and reconsiders what may be ailing his brother. Upon another review of the symptoms and an MRI, Nathan discovers Eli is suffering from an inoperable brain aneurysm that's causing his illusions.

If Nathan represents science, Dr. Chen represents faith. As Eli struggles to cope with his diagnosis, he looks to Dr. Chen for his take on the relationship of his revelations to his aneurysm. Dr. Chen suggests there could be a divine answer for why he's having delusions of grandeur - Eli may be a prophet.

While Eli is skeptical of being a prophet, his visions have helped him to recall what his father once impressed upon him -- "You're meant to do great things... speak inspired words... you're going to help people." With his father's words in mind, Eli redefines his outlook on life and his intent as a lawyer, beginning with a case in which he represents an old acquaintance against one of his firm's most important clients. Despite opposition from his imposing boss and future father-in-law, Jordan Wethersby (Victor Garber, Alias), and fiancée Taylor (Natasha Henstride, Commander in Chief), he chooses to stay the course.

Eli's resolve will be further tested by his colleagues, who include his sassy assistant, Patti (Loretta Devine, Crash), and fellow counsel Matt Dowd (Sam Jaeger, Catch and Release), an ambitious, competitive shark who exemplifies everything Jordan would like Eli to be. He'll also be challenged by Maggie Dekker (Julie Gonzalo, Veronica Mars), an inexperienced, junior associate who questions his commitment to change.

If you are reading this from the United States you catch up on episodes of this great series go to http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing  watch and enjoy.

If you live in Canada you can probably catch clips around the internet.

I certainly hope it is picked up for next season.

Friday March 07, 2008
New smoking law

When I was a child my father smoked like a fiend in his car. I hated it. I still hate the smell of smoke in a car. Being in a car where someone smokes still gives me headaches. I can never buy a car where I can smell cigarette smoke. It also turned me away from the idea of smoking.

Is this proposed new law about banning smoking in cars with children in the something needed? Darn right it  is. The only problem is at what age is it okay for the parents to smoke in the car with thir children? What is your answer? Most importantly what age will the Liberal government choose? It is going to be a tough one but this law is is needed.

Friday March 07, 2008
A win for our laws

Ontario Court Justice James Blacklock ruled against Baljinder Badesha. A while back Badesha was fined for not wearing a helmut while riding his motorcycle. This Sikh man insisted that nothing can cover his turban as his religion forbides it. He wanted to fight the charge on religious grounds. This caused a bit of a fervour amongst the general population including yours truly.

I agree with his right to try and get what he wanted but I am sure that we applaud the judges stand even more. Secular rules are made for the population and they either apply to the safety of everyone or don't bother to pass these laws at all and leave us all to our own devices.

What I did not like was that other Sikh motorcyclists decried the ruling say that this is a "devasting precident against minorities". What a foolish thing to say. This wasn't a law passed to hurt any minorities. It was law passed for the public safety and if they really wanted to ride a motorcycle they can do waht Sikh construction works do. These workers pull their beard and hair back adn tie them into a knot covered by a small cloth which is approved by the religion. So I ask you who has been denied the ability to ride a motorcycle. Certainly not Sikhs. Some of them just wanted it their way, that's all. Good try but no prize.

Friday March 07, 2008
Suicide mission in Israel

As I have said before, Islamists are not afraid to die for their beliefs as we have seen this past week with what happened in Israel. What I don't understand is how the parents of these martyers are so willing to let their children kill themselves and at the same time cry over the lives lost when they are attacked. Considering the way the Israelis strand up for themselves, did the Palestinian people really believe that this state in the desert would not fight back. At least they both fight for their homelands. A shame that so many people have to die but this is war and that happens.

I am not a great lover Israelis I am not anti-sematic. I have no problem with the Jewish poeple but I am not a great lover of the country they formed even though I figure they should have a right to exist. To explain this contradictory feeling, I must go back a few years when I saw something that upset me so much at the time that I became upset. I watched as an Israeli bulldozer plowed dirt over Palestinian protesters nearly killing them. What came into my head was the question, "How could a people who suffered the massive indignities and millions of deaths at the hands of the Nazis become such brown shirts. How could they do to others what was done to them, didn't anyone learn from history."

On that day I felt a revulsion for the state of Israel. I still do to a certain extent but I see things a bit differently today. The Jewish people suffered so much in the past but they never went around the world bombing Germans, they have never gone into Germany to blow up buildings or kill the average citizen. This is why my respect for the Jewish people is so great and why that respect felt betrayed on that day. The difference today is that I realize that they need to fight to hold on to what they have in Israel. Muslims have never been at peace with Jews and I have to admit I have never studied enough to understand why. I just wish that their state could be formed without the deaths but this has happened in the past around the world and will probably continue to do so. It is not going to be easy to blame them for what will happen in the coming future. They will not stand by and be killed again. The United Nations does not seem to be able to solve this problem and so the fighting and dying will continue but at least they fight and die for their very existence and their homeland. We can say that neither side are cowards and afraid to die for their homes in this war of attrition. The worse thing is that the United States and Arab countries that have been trying to stop the fighting have realized that it just isn't going to happen and have backed away from peace talks for now. Hopefully this situation will somehow calm down and maybe a major war in the Middle East can be avoided.

Friday March 07, 2008
We are cowards!!!

One thing is perfectly clear to me and it should be clear to you. Islamist extremeists are scaring the crap out of us and it seems we are becoming more and more afraid of their threats of violence. We are giving up personal freedoms, we have become fearful to fly, we are afraid to voice opinions, we are afraid to stck to principles that thousands upon thousands of soldiers died for in the World Wars. We are becoming nations or fearful, cringing, crippled  puppy dogs who are afraid to strand up for what our past generations died for.

This type of actions were never tolerated when gangsters tried them but stick the word religion to these acts of extortion and threats and we slither into our hidey holes in hopes if we don't offend them they will leave us alone. We have become COWARDS in our own countries. With each act of cowardice on our part we give these terrorists more power and the more power we give them the more they become entitles and the more they will kill to keep us in line with their religious beliefs. They did it centuries ago and will do so again int he future ahead.

These guys will win because they are willing to put their lives on the line for their beliefs killing themselves to kill their opponents. If you see an end to this, you are dreaming because life doesn't seem as precious to these terrorist because to them death is a reward not a finality. So tell me, how do you win against them when we invite these killers into our homes to kill us.

We better learn from history soon or our history will be gone.

Friday March 07, 2008
Pressure is on for the Dutch

The Dutch people and government have been incredibly steadfast in their free speech ethic and they must be applauded very enthusiastically. Now they seem to be at a crossroad with a important decision.

A right wing lawmaker, Geert Wilders has film he made  called "FITNA" which is an Arabic word used in the Koran and sometimes translated as "strife". In this movie Wilders has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Now the Dutch government is thinking of banning the film. Why, you ask, since they have held on steadfast to their beliefs so far? Well the government nad the people know that they risk economic sanctions in many Arabic and Muslim countries as well as extra attacks on their troops in Afghanistan.

The catch is that 54% of the population want the film shown even though 76% of those polled expected sanctions and violence just as it did when the infamous Mohammad cartoons were published in 2004. The countries 1 million Muslim popluation did not take kindly to that situation at the time so the chances it will happen again are fairly certain as Islamists are not exactly known for their patience and belief in freedom of speech.

We all know that this will increase tensions betwen Muslim and non-Muslims. It is highly unlikely that the hotheads in that community will sit back quietly. Isn't interested though that the Dutch people are willing to accept this to preserve their rights? A shame more countries around the world aren't willing to risk this situation to stop these people from trampling over our rights.

Funny thing though is that Pakistan's foreign ministry accused the Dutch politician of "propagating the politics of hate and promoting xenophobia". Ah, Mr. Foreign Minister, sir. you really don't need this situation propagate hate and xenophobia. Extreme Islamists are doing a damn fine job of creating this state all on their own, thank you very much.

Of course that problem still exists in the  fact that countries keep letting more and more Muslims into their countries. They do this and then are surprised when this crap happens. No country will ever keep it's own principles once you let these immigrants in. They go to foreign countries for work and for protections against the fighting and dying in their homelands and then they promptly bring all their beliefs and violence with them, and politically correct idiots do their best to accomadate them. Look people the Arabic countries are what they are.  They used to be  a nomadic people that were constantly at war with  and killing each other. After the Second World War with the Israelis moving into the region they came together a bit more to fight off the Jewish state, but, to this day they still kill each other in record numbers. So, these people started moving into other countires where this death toll was not a constant. They grew into a larger population base and what happens, the violence followed them as they insist on sticking to outdated religious rules that are drummed into them by power hungry religious leaders. The countries that allowed these massive influxes of people are now paying for it. Too bad, so sad, we did it to ourselves, but that doesn't mean we have to accept their relioug dogma. That is why I respect the stand that the Dutch have taken along with the  Australians. If you don't like our rules then leave.

You know, standing up for ones principles is hard. It can mean hardship, rough ordeals and deaths. The question is if you have the fortitude to stick to your beliefs in the way your country is run or wether you cave in to the opposition  for fear of violent reprisals. The interesting thing here is that the Dutch government doesn't seem to mind violent reprisal but economic reprisals is something different. I hope that this will not stop them and that other countries will push Dutch product in their own countries to offset the losses they may have in Arabic countries. I know that I will be looking to buy more products from the Netherlands and I hope that you do so as well.

Keep up the good fight people of the Netherlands, you have more supporters then you think. Fight for the rest of us who have seemed to have lost their way.

The Web site where Wilders plans to post the film (www.fitnathemovie.com) went live on Wednesday, showing a picture of the cover of the Koran. Visit the site nad watch the film when it goes online.

Wednesday March 05, 2008
This is the real meaning of freedom of speech

I'm posting this video to show what freedom of speech is all about when dealing with religion. I would like to see a Muslim person say this same speech and not be stoned. It is a funny video but it still points out OUR fundemental belief that we have in the freedom to say what we think.

WATCH VIDEO

Monday March 03, 2008
Muslim's want Democracy

I have an article for you today. Read Muslim's Want Democracy

Let's be fair about this Muslim folk do not want to be downtrodden any more then we do. They first have to pull themselves away from religious zealots and then they have to tell tehir fundamentalist clerics to basically take a flying leap into the everafter and let them have a peaceful life. No one wants to see their children and families hurt but as long as Muslims and the rest of the world's population put religion first before the people then this crap will go on forever.

Anyway read what the polls say in the article above.

Friday February 29, 2008
WATER IS CLEAR...NO SUGAR

Hey are people stupid or what. Are you one of those people who really believes those water commercials that show off their special water. It has sugar for your pleasure and they even colour it and flavour it.

THAT IS NOT WATER!!!!

IT IS POP!! SODA POP!!! Like in mountain dew, sprite et cetra. Do you understand that........it is NOT WATER!!! For crying out loud peopl are you that dense that you don't see that they are charging you for pop but disguise it as water to get your hard earned bucks. Oh and the stores and government know its not water because they charge sales tax on it. There is no tax on water.

Hey all pop has water in it but when you add syrup, colouring, lots and lots of sugar it is no longer considered water.

Now if you are stuoid enough to believe it's water then maybe I could see you  the lease to the Skyway Bridge. Give it to you cheap.

Sunday February 24, 2008
2007 Academy Awards

This year The Academy Awards  was the worst show ever. Here are some scattered thoughts about a scattered show.

Everyone seemed bored with the exception of a few interesting winners. The presenters were boring and even the oldtime scenes that I usually enjoy the most, were very trying to watch. I guess they had to depend on the countless oldtime scenes since the writers had very little to put this show together, It just seemed that most of the stars were not very interest in being at the Oscars. Maybe I'm losing interest in this show.

Forrest Whittaker and Helen Mirren were the only ones who added some class. The only genuinely stunned winner was Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton. It was obvious she was really surprised that she won this honour.

Jon Stewart was boring and tedious. I miss Billy Crystal and Robin Williams but I think the person you have to miss the most is good ol' Johnny Carson.

Was it any kind of surprise that Daniel Day Lewis won best actor? It was funny when he kneeled down in front of Helen Mirren (The Queen) who  presented him with his statuette. Even though I like the Coehn Brothers, I really do not think OLD COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was that great. I was really hoping that the best picture node would go to JUNO because NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN did not deserve it. I hated the ending by the way but hey I guess their peers saw something worthwhile in this character film.

I shouldn't put this show down too much as it is certainly an extremely difficult show to put together. Any who, it was still boring and I was finally glad when it was over. Maybe next year will blow us away.

Monday February 18, 2008
Random bits and bytes

stuff

1) What does it say about us as a culture when an actress accidentally says a word describing a female part and it becomes major news and everyone gets all high and mighty. At the same time there are countless programs on television where bodies are eviscerated and dispalyed in all their bloody mess. Heads cut off, internal organs spilling out, blood everywhere and we get upset over a word. I guess we're all too used to violence now. Words very raely kill as far as I have seen but bombs and guns and knives do. This world is rather sick don't you think?

2) There may be hope yet.  Newark, New York has gone  33 days with a killing. If you wonder what is so special about this you have to know that Newark has averaged 2 killings per week for  the last few years. The last time they had this situation was in 1963 when the New york city went 40 days with a killing. Really this is sad isn't it.

3) The war is just about over. Blu-Ray has won over HD DVD format. Do you really care?

4) Ever wonder what the world would be like if all the nations of the world left the Middle East and let them have it all to themselves. No trade, with them, no buying oil, no visiting and not taking in immigrants from those countries. Would they be happier with their lives. We at least wouldn't have had a 9-11 happen. Ah, wouldn't it be a nice dream?

5) Microsoft sucks doesn't it.

6) Who do you think will win in the US primaries Obama or Clinton? Should Canadians care? We beat them to a female ruler, so no big deal there. So, when we have our first black Prime Minister?? Anyone would be better then Harper or Dion.

7) I read today that the only way we could find a cure for HIV is to be able to do better than evolution...

"This is a huge challenge because to control HIV immunologically the scientific community has to beat out nature, do something that nature, with its advantage of 4 billion years of evolution, has not been able to do," Baltimore said.

Well nature sure does have a way of taking care of population control doesn't it.

8) Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Sunday said the rioting youths and their parents bore the responsibility for the unrest, and said they should expect no sympathy from society.

He noted that Denmark's freedom of speech includes cartoonists, and that anger over a drawing did not give anyone "the right to burn others' cars or to burn down schools or institutions."  ...You tell them Anders. I still say the Danes got more gonads  then North Americans.

9) Facebook!!! Why??

10) For those of you who read comics and have read World War Hulk. Don't you wish that the Hulk got really mad at the end and split the Earth in two and end it all. It would have been a earth shattering ending. Sorry I just had to say that. A better Hulk movie will be here this summer...yipeee!! There better not be and big, mutated french poodles in this one or I'm throwing spit balls at the screen.

I'm outta here for now.

Monday February 18, 2008
Children's show encourages terrorism

This bit of news I read is so infuriating that I just can't say anything. I'm just plain disgusted and you should be as well. I am putting it in here for you to read and then you can go get disqusted as well...............

GAZA (UPI) -- A Hamas children's television show produced in Gaza, has introduced a Bugs Bunny-like star character who vows, "I will eat the Jews," a report said.

The TV show, "Tomorrow's Pioneers," was condemned in 2007 for featuring a Micky Mouse-like character who advocated terrorist attacks aimed at Israelis, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.

This time around, a rabbit named Assud reportedly has become the new lead character of the show, which is produced by the Hamas-led TV station Al-Aqsa.

"This program is telling us that they see children as tools in their propaganda and their war," Palestinian Media Watch Director Itamar Marcus told the British newspaper.

The show reportedly ends with a song called, "We will never recognize Israel," and is broadcast via satellite throughout Arab-speaking countries.

Sunday February 17, 2008
Muslims true to form

Well all hell broke loose in Copenhagan, Denmark after 15 newspapers published a cartoon of Mohammad to protest the attempted murder of the 71 year old cartoonist. This led to riots, fire bombings and protests in other countries as well. These guys are true to form aren't they. They are trigger happy and always will be.

One Iman said that Danes mistake freedom of speech with freedom to insult others. DUH!!! Try thinking you morons.  That is what freedom of speech is all about. Only Muslims don't understand or know this concept because their religion doesn't really allow for it or teach it. They have the mistaken idea that Christians and other religions give a damn about their religion, just as much as they give a damn about our religions. Only difference is that we usually don't start worldwide riots, kill and murder people when they insult our religions. Maybe if we did they would get the picture but most Christians believe in a more peace loving prophet and saviour called Jesus who taught us to turn the other cheek. So we do really try. In trying do we to give in to these terrorists. It's easy to turn the other cheek when they slap you but much harder when they blow up you families.

Muslims shoot first and try to think later. Try to think is the operative word because it must come extremely diffficult to them. As I've said before, if these people would just ignore the papers and the press and don't look at the cartoons then they wouldn't be offended. The offense comes in their viewing of the depictions not ours as we do not see this prophet in teh same way as they do and hopefully we never will. Cartoons of Mohammad were not meant for them, they are meant for people who refuse to take out a subscription to their insane religious doctrine. Every time they react this way it just makes the rest of us fear them more and since we can't stand to be afraid we retaliate with more words that express our displeasure at  what they do. Just how long is the world going to put up with these terrorist tactics by a religion that seems to only know one way to react to any criticism...violence. If Mohammad truly practiced and preached peace then they are not following in his footsteps. Then again, Mohammad didn't really preach peace did he, only the moderate Muslims, read sane ones, tell us that their prophet was a man of peace because the moderates would like to live a sane and peaceful life without these a-hole extremeists gumming up the works for all of them.

To Muslims everywhere, remember bide your time. you don't have to be terrorists to prove your point. Just wait us out because in a few generations the face of world religion will change. Christians will barely be in extistence since the Muslim population grows by leaps and bounds worldwide. Like the Chinese , Muslims will overpower our way of life by sheer numbers. So sit back, relax, immigrate, have many babies and let your population grow as it has in the last 60 years and soon you will be the main world wide religion and then you can have everything your way. Oh, you will have to fight the China eventually because they really try to avoid religious beliefs. When the Chinese atheists take over hundreds of years from now we at least won't have any of this religion war crap.

See, there it is natural selection will win, so stop bombing us and killing us. We will eventually get out of your way. Now go sit down and have a beer, Oops, forgot alchol is forbidden.

Saturday February 16, 2008
Why do Regular Canadians get the short end of the stick.

Just when I thought I wouldn't have anything to complain about today along comes this story.

SIKH BIKER Click her and read then continue below.

Okay first thing I have to ask is how did this Sikh get a motorcycle license. So the problem here is that a devout Sikh (aren't they all) wants to be exempt from the Highway Traffic Act and be able to ride his motorcycle without a helmut. Why? Well, it seems they are not allowed to cover their turban. Well first off,  this begs the question how did he get his motorcycle license. To go on the test with the Ministry of Transport you first have to wear a helmut or the examiner will fail you automatically for not complying with the law. Nowhere in the article is it mentioned if he has a license, so we can assume he hasn't gone for a test and is on a learner's permit. He received a fine and that starts off the story.

Trying to get the government to make an exception on religious grounds just is not right on so many levels. Sure the medical and accident costs are explored but what about the rights of others. Is the government willing to set up multi religious laws in Canada because I swear I will join many religions and use that as an excuse to break our nations laws.

Once again other religions and immigrants come to our shores and want to apply their rules to our great land. Can we all say "THAT SUCKS BIG TIME!!!!". Will the governemnt please have the gonads to tell people that if their religion is so damn important to them that maybe they should consider the option of sacrificing for the faith. What is more important to this guy...his faith or riding a motorcycle. Why should we change the laws of the land.

All religions change or should change to enter the ever morphing social structure. Over the centuries we have given up believing in mythological gods and their ways. Religion has to grow to adapt to the needs of their faithful not the other way around. Why would religious leaders object to allowing Baljinder Badesha to wear something that could save his life. If the religious leaders think he is  not imortant enough then maybe he should leave the religion. Of course the religious leaders could tell him that the Sikh religion objects to him riding the motorcycle.

But hey, why  not think that your religion is more important then the law. This is an ongoing problem that we are facing in most countries, worldwide, with the huge influx of immigrants spouting their religious dogma. When are we going to grow a pair and tell immigrants that if you want to go to another country that you have to abide by the laws of the land. If you want to maintain your religious beliefs then fine, just be willing to sacrifice for it. Better yet if you can't handle what we have here then go somewhere else.

Canadians, Americans, British, Germans, Italians are all feeling like strangers in their own lands. Is this right? DAMN RIGHT it isn't.

Still British Columbia and Manitoba, the United Kingdom and India allows devout sikhs to forego the helmut. These countries all consider the rest of the population of those lands, to be unimportant, and should be confined to a separate set of rules and be denied what they give to these religious groups.  I think that if other bikers really believe that it is their right to  not have to wear a helmut they should all begin this year refusing to wear their helmuts all the time. Let us see the outcome to this civil disobedience.

First some people may get hurt but like Baljinder, they are willing to take the chance. Now let's see what happens when the police forces everywhere have to stop every few minutes to try to give out tickets. Think of the mess that would cause. Now all those people will refuse to pay the fines and want their day in court. Try to picture what that would do to the court legal system. Can you say massive tie ups as the courts get bogged down and other more important trials will get tossed because of not getting a timely court date. What happens if thousands upon thousands of bikers refuse to pay the fines. Are there enough jails and money to handle the influx? Not likely.

Am I inciting anarchy? Damn right I am. The citizen is the government and we expect that all citizens are treated equally under the law. But obviously too many new people coming to all these countries  feel they are better that the rest of us. May I suggest that you do not use your religion as a cheap ploy to get what you want. Try running for government office and get rid of the laws you don't like so that everyone has an equal right under the law.

It is important to realize that OUR SOCIETY...I repeat OUR SOCIETY is being undermined by immigrants who refuse to join our society and put their religion above our laws. Who the hell rules in our countries...the people's government's or the belief in some supernatural beings, of which there seems to be way too many. Time to stand up folks. Get rid of governments that let this sh*t go on.

Governments should make a stand against psuedo political correctness now, peacefully, because someday it could go the other way...not peacefully. May I remind these countries that North America was not formed peacefully and that we are perfectly capable of standing defiant against our oppressors. Citizens have done it before and nothing can stop it again if anger slow slimmers and eventually breaks out into a boil. A turban and a motorcycle can start unrest as easily as a bombing, throwing tea into a harbour, hangings or tanks et cetra.

Start the rectification now or someday these lands will break out in a turmoil that we may all regret. You can only stick the shaft up the rear so far until someone says enough and the chain reaction will begin. Never even remotely believe that we are so civilized that we would forego bloodshed to give the impression we are "civilized". Push too far and even the most peaceful of God's creatures will turn and attack.

Governments and religions do not mix. They can not mix and never should mix. Learn that now or pay for the lesson unlearned, at a later time.

Read the entry after this one to read about some immigrants who try to adjust. Not all of them try to con us with their religious beliefs.

Saturday February 16, 2008
A good immigrant story

Saturday mornings I sit and read the Hamilton Spectator and try not to get to annoyed at what I read. Someone please demolish the Lister Block Building it is really looking like sh*t. I love old buildings but only when they are taken care of. This eyesore has to be fixed or dumped.

Hey how did I get on to that topic.

It was nice to read an article where an immigrant family comes to Canada (Hamilton in particular) and actually strives to join the social structure and not try to make it fit their way of life. I feel a warm feeling all over. I'm sure it won't list.
Read the article and you will see that some immigrants actually do everything to join our community. Wouldn't it be nice to see this more often?

Click on ... Sri Lanka Family to read the article.

Thursday February 14, 2008
It's okay for them to have freedoms but we can't

REPRINTING OF DANISH CARTOONS COULD STOKE NEW VIOLENCE

You can click on the url above to read the article that got me all stoked up again.

First off "bravo" to the Danish newspapers and others around the world who have had the gonads to stand up for freedom, unlike Canadians and Americans. The world is getting ready for more turmoil because we dare to use our freedom of speech and expressions and may hurt the poor downtrodden multi million strong Islamic religion.

The Danish papers in response to threats on the life of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard have decided that enough was enough. They want to show Muslims around the world that  they are committed to freedom of speech after the arrest of three men who plotted to kill Westergaard. They and many other newspapers will be reprinting cartoons from the 2006 collection that started all of this hoopala. 

I'm going to put it to the Muslims this way. In Canada and other countries where you live you have the freedom to practice your religion, wear what you want to wear and say what you want to say. You have called me a monkey because I am Christian and you have called Jews, pigs and no one has gone out and threatened to blow you up or behead you or put you in prison. We, on the other hand have to watch our mouths and the freedoms we enjoy because we may offend you. This is bulls**t.

Look, in case you haven't realized it yet, you haven't converted to entire world to Islam (heaven forbid) and we don't subscribe to your beliefs so if we want to print some cartoons then leave us be. All you have to do is, don't buy the papers and you won't see them and then your fear that this might lead to idolatry won't be threatened. The rest of us can look at them as they mean nothing to us except political expression. Besides in Canada we don't need  Mohammad since we already have our own self centered personage, a guy by the name of Stephen Harper. We can even print his picture with his blessing since he wants us to turn him into an idol.

Now you see isn't it nice to be able to say that without upsetting every Canadian. I write these words because I have the freedom to do so and any Muslim can have the same freedom to rebute, as long as he doesn't threaten to blow somebody up.

Islam extremeists have to learn to moderate themselves and live in a world where there are other opinions. If you can not do that or do not wish to do that, then please feel free to return to any part of the world where Islam rules your lives in everyway and leave us to our indulgences.

It's time for change all around. All sides have to adapt to a new world. If one side refuses to change then trouble will come; of that you can be sure. Religion has always stirred men's hearts to war and if we do not all become civilized and accept our differences then the God Of War will win and we will all lose.

To the brave Danish, you have my respect for your guts and I'm sure you have the respect of millions around the world for your stance. Now how about some whiney, whipped assed Canadian papers doing the same. Oh, wait Canadians don't have gonads. The politically correct brown shirts cut them off.

Monday February 11, 2008
IT SUCKS

IT SUCKS GETTING OLDER.

Getting older is bad enough but it seems that you see more and more people you know or admire pass away with great frequency. Family members go away faster it seems and you go to more funerals every year.

Great actors you admired and watched are passing away with greater frequency. Roy Scheider died today at 75. Who can ever forget him in the JAWS movies. As for me I'll always remember him in SORCERER (remake of the WAGES OF FEAR), a great movie. At least he had a great career.

I don't ususally write about actors who die but today I am down because I just found out my uncle has cancer. SUCKS DOESN'T IT.

GETTING OLDER SUCKS!!!!

Tuesday February 05, 2008
What The 'H'.......Afrocentric.....????

I just don't know where to start on this one folks. I am so angry and frustrated and insulted and hurt about this entire idea of AFROCENTRIC public schools in Toronto. The school board should be ashamed of themselves.

Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Rosa Parks, and all those brave souls from the past who died to achieve racial equality, are certainly rolling around in their graves over this perfidious act by the school board and those who lobby for Afrocentric schools. They are traitors to everything these people stood for and died for. 

Proponents of this type of racial separation dishonour these brave souls. You dissappoint those that came before you who were dragged to North America against their will.  These Africans were sold into slavery to the white man by other black Africans, against their wills. They were sold into slavery by their own people, and certainly not by Canadians.

Instead of surrendering to the white supremacists, these brave people fought and died for intergretion and now you have the audacity to fight to separate yourselves from the rest of the school population. Please someone tell me that I misunderstand this entire situation.

I listened to some of those teachers, public servants and students who think the idea of Afrocentric  schools are necessary because too many black students drop out of school. It seems that these students drop out because they do not learn enough black history in the public school system. I have some interesting news for you idiots. I never learned Italian history in school. German students didn't learn about German history; Jews do not learn Jewish history. When was the last time Chinese were taught Chinese history except for where they were involved in Canadian history, where, I might add, they were used and abused. So get off you bandwagon and join the rest of us in learning the Canadian curriculum.

Students do not drop out of school because they are not taught history. Are the people you are pushing this adgenda really believe that their race has childrent hat can only learn if they are taught in a way only blacks can understand? Are they really saying that these drop outs are that stupid and unable to learn? Are they really opening themselves to this type of ridicule? Do the students that go to these new schools be willing to be branded with the mark of ineptitude? Are the schools going to be a sign of failure by the black community? What about the students going there. We are told that the schools are not just for those droppning out but any black student can go there as well. Okay, but isn't there going to be a separation of students in these schools as well. There will be  students who are smart and there to learn and then there are those that are deemed dropouts and have learning disabilities. Now supposedly because of the teaching of black history and black curriculum these not quite up to parr students who prefer to normally drop out of school, sell drugs and shoot people are going to becomemodel students. Okay everyone let's pause here so we can all let out a good long belly laugh.

I don't see Chinese people insisting on their own public schools, nor the Vietnamese, or the Italians or the Mexicans or the Germans....all I hear are the whiny black folks who think that their poor kids can't learn unless they are with other black kids and concentrate on their own black history. Look, you live in Canada; you learn Canadian history. Take the time to visit the library and read to learn the rest of your history. No one taught me Italian history, I had to read on my own time to find out more than what I was taught in school.

I am pretty certain that in no time there will be a separation of student styles in these new schools and trouble will occur between these groups, bad trouble. The worst that could happen will be if other nationalities start asking for the same considerations. Chinese public schools can teach the Chinese, Italian schools can do the same, Japanese schools can teach their own history, the Spanish people can do the same and the Muslims will ask...oh, wait they did but the population voted that down in the last election. At least Premier McGinty has made it known he is total against the school board on this issue.

The problem dear freinds does not lie in their stars but in the inadequacies of the parents, the family and the community. Parents should to teach and instill in their children a morality of right over wrong and have the gonads of turning them in when they get into the wrong company (not an easy thing to do but may be neseccary when all else fails). The families, aunts, uncles should involve themselves as well. The community should stick together to take out the roughnecks by turning them in to the police when they see drug deals, attacks and shootings. They should do everything to get their kids into community programs and even watch movies like THE GREAT DEBATORS;  MEN OF HONOUR; PRIDE;  THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS and many others.

They should not be watching movies that glamourize the gangster lifestyle such as AMERICAN GANGSTER  and any movie that propagates the negative black stereotype.

The other pitfall we have here is the natural nastiness that will inevitably occur as lots of white kids are going to see these schools as a school for dummies, black dummies at that. Sorry, as much as I would like to think better of white kids I just can't because kids being kids they will certainly see this situation in the wrong light. What is being created is a situation where  we are going ahead  and teaching white kids that black students are so deficient that they need their own schools to be able to learn. To many are going to see these schools as schools for outcasts that cannot cope with the society they live in. The school board has launched a new form of racial separatism and are just helping those idiots who think that there is a need for racial segregation. You guys have only caused a wider rift that I hope most Canadians can see past and not cause it to grow bigger.

Believe me I can understand some of the problems. The black race were probably the most exploited and enslaved race ever and they want to be proud of their heritage but they should also live in the now, not the past and remember that  today's people had nothing to do with the past and to belabour that point is senseless. I know I had nothing to do with slavery any more than I had anything to do with Mussolini working with the Nazis. The past is the past...you learn from it to improve your future, not to regress into it's transgressions. We live in the now and nothing we do can change that past unless you have a time machine that I and the rest of humanity is unware of. Work to improve your present and future and make those who sacrificed their lives  for their future generations, proud of their progeny. Dropping out of school and going around shooting and selling drugs and claiming you are different and should be treated different is not what your forefathers had in mind when they fought for the freedom to be like everyone else regardless of race and colour.

To those who are fighting for Afrocentric schools all I can say is shame on you for letting those ancestors down. Shame on you for dissapointing those who died to give you the freedoms you have. Shame on you!!!

If you want to learn more about your ancestors or your race's discoveries and achievements then try reading at the libray or better yet hit the world wide web....yeah, imagine that a web of information about anyone's race or heritage  available world wide...neat concept isn't it and everyone can use it with no barriers from colour or race or religion...woooowwww!!! and amazing idea.

Here are some websites you can visit....

Racial Separatism Revisited

Justice Demands an End to Segregation, But it Does Not End

African American History

PS: The North American world has changed. Could you see the idea years ago of a woman running for President of the USA? Black children were told they could grow up to be president and now for the first time it could happen. Someday soon Canada may be voting for a black Prime Minister and you know it could be you if you don't drop out that is.

Tuesday January 29, 2008
Funny Youtube video about religion

Ah, youtube. Home of many a entertaining video a place to natter on about anything you can video tape. Once in a while a good one comes along, in between the inevitable "look at my big boobs" video and then "go to my site and pay me $24.95 a month to see more that you've already seen before" video. This one is called RELIGION and is absolutely hysterical....really...it may offend every Abrahamic religious faith but Marcus Brigstocke is really funny. Worth the time.

RELIGION VIDEO CLICK HERE

Monday January 28, 2008
AN IMPORTANT VIDEO TO LISTEN TO!!!!

I found this video on Youtube but since I didn't know how long it would last on their I downloaded and hopefully it will be viewed here. Please watch this one and listen to the ray of hope out there. This is really important. Click on the url and wait for it to load. It may take a while but it will be worth it.

THE PEOPLE MUST THINK

Monday January 28, 2008
CLEANING UP SOME STUFF FROM MY MIND

I have a bunch of little things to get off my mind.

1)Since the stupid attack on the Muslim girl in a downtown school (that shall remain nameless)I thought I would throw in my 2 cents worth. You know not every school fight has to to do with race or the wearing of the hijab. Sometimes it's just girls pissing off other girls. Just because a student is Muslim doesn't mean that  student can't be nasty to fellow classmates. Sometimes girls just pick on another student for reasons other than religion. Let's tread carefully before we say things like this are hate related okay.

 2) On the hajib. Isn't stupid that a young girl is killed for not wearing a hajib by her father. Somehow over the years Muslim men seem to have adapted the notion that the hajib is part of the Muslim religion. Nowhere in the Koran will traditional Muslim scholars find that there is a need for the hajib or veil to be worn by women. This is just a way to subjugate women in the Muslim culture. No matter how many times I hear from politically correct MacMaster teachers and students, that we should respect the wearing of the hajib by women, I will never agree. To me the wearing of the hajib is like putting shackles on a woman and signifying that she is of a lower class. Nothing you say or do will convince me otherwise. If Muslim men really loved their wives they would remove this shackle from them and respect them as women and not as their possessions. Yeah, yeah, I know lots of Muslim men truly love their wives and why shouldn't they, but I ask them the question, 'why do you insist on letting the religious leaders tell you how your wife should dress'?  Really Mr. Muslim and Mr. Iman , your Muslim women not wearing the hijab or  a veil or the contourless clothing is not going to turn me or you into a sex starved, ravaging Christian monkey that will attack your illustrious and incredible ravenous beauty of your women. Okay, get over it; you are in Canada.

Hey Canadian guy!! Tell me what would happen to you if you forced your wife to wear a hijab or veil or contourless clothing? Do you think you would survive the day?

3)Does anyone else out there see Venezulan President Hugo Chavez as one of those silly little dictators you see in the funny pages of comics? I could see Charlie Chaplin doing a take off on this character, if Cahplin were alive of course. On one hand he seems like a man who cares for his people and then on the other hand he seems like a bufoon. Of course, he is right about President Bush being an idiot and the devil. Takes one to know one, right?

4) To Saddam Hussein, where ever you are...oops, you goofed on that one didn't you. You really thought you could count on the Americans not invading if you said you had weapons of mass destruction. Okay so you didn't really have any. You thought you would pretend to keep other Arab nations from attacking you. Not your most brilliant plan was it? That one backfired on you. Cost  us a s well. You dope on a roap.

5)New driving school regulations suck.

I have to tell you folks out there, if the Ministry of Transportation really gave a damn about new drivers and didn't try to cover their ass every time some kid gets or killed while drag racing, they might want to consider setting  higher standards of driver education in this country. Canada and the United States have the worst driver education programs in the world, next to the little village in the Amazon Jungle that has that little toy foot peddle vehicle that patrols the village. If you want better drivers try not telling the kids and their parents that they will give you an insurance certificate if you take a minimum of 6 to 8 hours on the road and 25 hours in the classroom. No one learns to drive safely and properly with 6 to 8 hours on the road. IDIOTS!!!!

In Europe, driver education courses go anywhere from 40 to 80 hours of on road instruction. Why is this? Well, because you can't drive the Autobahn with only 6 hours of driver ed. People need to be taught on how to drive at high speeds and what to do in emergency situations. Instead of taking instructor licences away from teachers if they lose two points, try giving them the tools to increase the road time instruction and the education to have them teach better skills of the road. Most of all make it madatory that students need at least 25 to 40 hours to learn to drive properly. I can give you 6 hours on just steering methods and braking alone.

Taking instructor licenses away from the teacher because of a minor infraction shows the stupidity of the government. Government attitude is always blame the low man on the totem pole. They say that instructor's should be held to a higher standard. Okay fine, then let's hold the policeman to a higher standard as well. If a cop gets caught drinking and driving or speeding or gets into an accident that causes them to lose 2 points then they should go without a job as well, because if you can't look up to the police to follow the laws then why would believe the kids will. Oh, and let us not forget the politicians who make the stupid, short sighted laws like this one. They  should also be held to a higher standard and should be held accountable like the driving instructor and the policeman. After all if you make the laws and don't apply them to yourselves, then what's the point. Are you listening Mr. Prime (I use my cellphone while driving) Minister of Newfoundaland. You know the law applies to you as well.

So back to the point. Creating the tougher education of a student driver will do greater good than trying to scare instructor's out of the business. IDIOTS!!!

6) Wow!!! Whipping a Muslim girl for being raped. Now there is a culture worth aspiring to. I guess, the hijab on her didn't stop the good Allah fearing Muslim men from raping a poor innocent girl. IDIOTS!!! SAUDI ARABIAN IDIOTS!!! More Muslim idiocy!!! Of course Christians used to burn women at the stake for witchcraft so we aren't much better. Oh, wait Christianity grew up a little over the centuries. The Islamic should try growing up and entering the 21st, you might like it. IDIOTS!!!!

7) Any country that uses religion or race as a reason to subjugate, exterminate and destroy should be bombed into oblivion. Oh wait, we did do that, in the 20th century. To you politically correct morons try to remember that we did not excuse these type of actions then, and we shouldn't excuse them now. IDIOTS!!! Are you listening Middle East...yah that includes you Israel.

I don't know, the more wars we fight, the more moronic we become and the more we stay the same. IDIOTS!!!

8) Do you think that Muslim leaders around the world donate money to good causes and education facilities to be nice; to ask forgiveness for their fanatical country men or just to buy us out?  Change, by slow and manipulative passive intrussion into a society. Change will slowly come from within. See it now or pay for it later.

9) Is Prime Ministe Harper really a robot??? Could he be a plot from a distant planet out to slowly and surely draw their plans against us...

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment"

You know I've been watching to much AIR FARCE!!!

10) Wanting to imprison or execute a teacher because her students named a toy bear MOHAMMAD. Now there is an enlightened society and religion for you. Yup, these are the guys we excuse and  whose ass we kiss  because they threaten to blow us up. Nice!!!

11)  I love watching Graig Ferguson after David Letterman. He should be appointed the replacement for for Letterman when David retires, in the next 100 years. Goooooo Craig!!!

12) To Conrad Black... hahahaha!! Give up your Canadian Citizenship eh!!

13) The refugee who rocked Islam  This is an article that you MUST read. I caught it in the Spectator and I was amazed by it. The courage of a young Muslim woman gives one hope. All you PC people should maybe learn from it. AYAAN HIRSI  has much to say and we should listen as she has put her life at risk to inform people. Click on  the url above and read the entire long article, it is worth it.

14) And last but not least... ID IMPLANTS for people. Do I really have to say how stupid this idea is. Look I know that they could save lives and I know they may help but you all know deep in your very soul that they are not a brilliant idea to preserve our freedoms. Every time we agree to this type of thing , id implants,  gps and other devices out there to track our every move we give up a little more of our freedoms. Giving up our freedoms for security is wrong....wrong....wrong. If we hide behind these things then we give up freedoms that may seem to help us on the surface but really hurt us below the surface. Everyone knows so much about us today, more than any other time in mankinds history. We make it easier for those shady people to use this information about and against us. Nowadays, the government knows everything about us, the police can track us in private hideaways, we can be spotted on city downtown cameras, satellites; private detectives can track our cell phones our gps and our credit card usage. For God sakes, advertisers know how, when and where and with what we wipe our asses with. Is this the legacy we want to pass on to our children for safety and temporary peace of mind? Was George Orwell in the 1948 novel  '1984' correct about our future life? Are we really  willing to give up our freedoms of life, freedom or movement, freedom of privacy for the prison of security.?

I think that was the point of Communism wasn't it? We take care of of you and you give us all your freedoms and security. We tell you what to do and we feed you. You obey us and we will cloth you. You do not deny us anything and we will house you. Let us intrude into your life and we will defend you and keep you from harm. Is this what we really want?

It is funny, that a country like the United States, that was on the forefront of the battle against Communism is the country that invents and uses these new technologies to say the exact same things as toss 'enslaving Communist leaders' of the past. Have we all learned so little, and are we all so scared, that we are willing to deny our right to freedoms and privacy for some sort of  enslaved safety? I hope that it isn't to late for us to learn the true cost of freedoms and that we remember that freedom comes with a cost that we must all accept. It is hard for us to think that we may lose children, family and close friends to keep these freedoms that we are entitled to, but to even consider this loss of freedom will eventually, someday,  down the line cost us much, much more. We may lose our immortal souls and our God given right to free will.

Thanks for listening...gotta go now.

Monday January 28, 2008
SAVE THE BEES

I was reading an article that I thought was important...extremely important and so I thought I would pass on the information to you good people.

"I wanted to make an appeal to you to consider helping a woman who I believe is making a great documentary about a very important topic which you probably heard about in the news earlier this year – the vanishing of the bees. "The Vanishing of the Bees," a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a potential ecological apocalypse that could topple our food chain and forever devastate our way of life.

From the dawn of society, the nature and origin of the honeybee has awakened the curiosity and interest of man. In the past five million years, this furry insect has been a creature of special sanctity, representing many things such as the human soul, industry, cooperation and the sacred feminine. Our relationship with bees also denotes the most ancient form of agriculture. Today, however a mysterious phenomenon, known as “Colony Collapse Disorder,” is killing the honeybee; they’re disappearing all over the planet and nobody is quite sure why.

Maryam Henein has been following the bees since the beginning of the year and she only has a few things left that need to be filmed for her documentary, but they are all happening in the first two months of 2008 and she has run out of funds.

Maryam needs $2000 to cover the National Beekeeping Conference in Sacramento from Jan 9-12. Then she needs to raise $1500 for a trip to Florida in January to check in with beekeeper Jim Doan to see how his bees have survived this year. Finally, in February, she needs $1,000 to film the First Ever Organic Beekeeping Conference in Arizona and an additional $1000 for a trip to film the bees from all across the country arriving in California for the annual pollinating of the almond trees.

If the bees continue to disappear at the alarming rates that they did this past season, we will start to see a big impact in what food is available at the market. If the bees continue to die off the way they did last year, this is a potentially catastrophic situation. Maryam is passionate about the bees and finding out what is ailing them and getting the message out so that we can prevent any catastrophes. Please take the time to watch her trailer at: http://www.vanishingbees.com/

I am making this appeal because she has spent a lot of her own money and time and she is completely at wits end. She needs to film the next two months in order to complete the story.

Please be generous and join me in making a donation to this very worthy film and cause right away. If you can, please send a gift today. Time is of the utmost importance to get this film in the can.

All deductions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law, and checks can be made out to Empowerment Works, which is the 501c3 fiscal sponsor of the film. Send any contributions to:

Empowerment Works
Attn: Maryam Henein
1837 Grace Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90028
EIN: 31-1796801

Well, I hope you can help out with this good cause or if not please make sure you DO NOT KILL BEES!!! If they come around you blow on them gently like a breeze and they will fly away and leave you alone. DO NOT SWAT THEM...LET THEM DO THEIR JOBS!!! Remember bees do not sting unless touched. If they sting you they die as their stinger pulls out of their bodies unlike hornets. Now if you want to kill hornets that's okay. They are nasty little buggers but usually they leave you alone unless you disturb their nests, which are usually in inconvenient places.

Oh yeah and watch the BEE MOVIE it was lots of fun.

Thursday January 24, 2008
The Movie Palace

Just thought I would give a plug to THE MOVIE PALACE at 526 Concession Street, just east of Upper Wentorth on the Hamilton Mountain. This is one sharp theatre. No, it  isn't a corporate theatre but an independent theatre owned and managed by Dale. This is what he has to say...

“THE MOVIE PALACE is a restored 1920's movie theatre that has been converted into a multi- functional facility capable of handling a variety of events and functions. Not just a Digital Movie Theatre, we can accommodate corporate events, weddings, educational programs and seminars to name just a few uses of this unique space. By basing the interior design on an atmospheric movie palace set in a Roman Amphitheatre, we can supply all of our guests with a nostalgic twist combining the golden era of Hollywood and the majesty of Rome.”

I have had the opportunity to go and see Dale twice this month with my Grandson. The grandson is only 2 and a half so I thought what the heck time to introduce him to the big screen. I did this with trepidation as I wasn’t sure whether he would sit through an entire movie. He did, twice. I took him to see the BEE MOVIE and the New VEGGIE TALES MOVIE: THE PIRATE WHO DON’T DO ANYTHING.  He loved the experience. Dale played some extra cartoons for him as well. He actually sat and watched Mickey Mouse cartoons from the late 1920’s. He put them on the screen at my request when he asked which ones we wanted to see. Nice.

One of the reasons I want you to go to THE MOVIE PALACE is not because it’s a bit cheaper or that it has great sound and great ambiance but because of the seats. Dale never put in traditional seating which at first I thought was weird and may hurt him BUT when you take a child to see a movie here you realize how great this works out. The seats padded bench seats. Yes like church pews but in front of you attached to the back of the seat in front is a nice size ledge/table that allows you to put all your snack bar goodies in front of you. The kids have all their food in front of them without obstructing their view and I didn’t have to hold anything. The kids sit comfortably as if they were at home. Great idea, Dale.

So, folks if you want to see great movies at a good price for the family this is the place to go. For movie information call 905-383-2641. Oh and if you haven’t been there in a while the snack bar has improved as well. Stop by THE MOVIE PALACE and say hi to Dale and his Staff. I’ll be seeing the place again for ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS; the grandson should like that one as well.

Well done Dale.

Visit .... THE MOVIE PALACE 

Thursday January 24, 2008
DAM BEAVERS

I was feeling really down today but thanks to buddy Ray who sent me a letter I feel much better and I had a good laugh. It deserved to be passed on. Read and enjoy.

This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries regarding a pond on his property. It was sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania . This guy's response is hilarious, but read State's letter before you get to the response letter.  

Monday January 21, 2008
What a bunch of crap!!!!

Sometimes things just steam me up. When I see crap in the news sometimes I just have to say something to let off steam. If you want to read the article that got me this way go to the article by clicking here...

Prophet Mohammed cartoon publisher jailed

You're back? Good. You know I don't give a rat's behind if the government of some Muslim country went after a publisher for printing pictures of Mohammad but when Christian governments do it then you just have to ask where the f&#k are their brains. None of them would imprison a publisher for saying something against Christ but oooooo...say something about the big bad prophet M and  we will put you in jail. You see it is becoming obvious that the world is more afraid of Muslims then they are of Christ and God. Just keep on kissing their asses and someday they will doing a lot more to you.

Okay now to be fair, this type of crap happens when radical Muslims start things and this is the sad part. We cow tow to these bastards who make everyone's life miserable and make moderate and intelligent Muslim people look bad. People in charge of Chritian and Buddist based countries, use your brains will you. When immigrants come to your country then they are going to have to learn to live within the rules of that country. If  freedom of the press and freedom of speech is the rule of the land then these poor mis-understood Muslims should respect that country's laws and ways...if not then go  live in a Muslim nation. Why should we have to give in to everything these people say. Are Christian people such cowards that we have to go run and hide when these fundamentalists religious zealots prance and scream ? It sure seems that way doesn't it.

All these type of actions by the radical Muslims and by chickensh#t governments just prove how cowardly we are and how we help fuel the radical actions of these terrorists. Maybe the Christian Churches should start demonstrating and performing acts of terror when newspapers and media make jokes and ridicule Christ and the Churches. Let's be fair, if you are going to allow one religion to dictate governmnet policy then the other religions should have this ablity as well.

Since politically correct people and idiot governments seem to think that the Muslim religion is strong enough to dictate to everyone else ,then maybe we should all convert to this religion, after all the Islamic religion is duty bound by it's precepts to convert everyone to Islam. So why wait, beat the rush; convert now and then we can all get together and go after the Scientologists and convert them to the true religion of God.

As for me I'd rather be dead then ever consider converting to an archaic, mysognist, violent and idiotic religion like Islam. I can barely even accept the idiocy of my Catholic religion. The only thing wrong with all this, is that the good and fair moderate Muslims end up being lumped with the radicals. North America has done this with the Japanese, the Germans and the Italians in the past, so why change now. Land of the free my ass.

Yes I know thi happened in an ex-Russian country but it can happen elsewhere as well. I have to give credit to the Muslim community in this country of Belarus for asking the governement to consider leniency.

Sunday November 11, 2007
THE BRILLIANCE OF MOVIE STUDIOS...BUT YOU GET RIPPED OFF!!!!

Friday October 12, 2007
Liberal win

Yeah, the McGinty's Liberals are in for another four years. I certainly hope they don't give me any nasty fodder for this blog over their the time of their new mandate.

First congratualtions for giving the people a new Febrauary stat holiday. Score one.

I did have a great respect for Howard Hampton  this time around for one reason. This leader had the balls to get up and tell off an bunch of reporters for the lack of caring in real issues. He did himself proud and I think those extra seats came about because of this stance he took. The NDP under Hampton may eventually form a government.

Let's keep our fingers crossed over the next four, shall we.

Friday October 12, 2007
PRIDE

I just finished watching a nice movie. Terrence Howard and Bernie Mac starred in PRIDE, a swim film. It begins an 1964 and takes place in 1974 and during the end credits we see it continues to this day.

The reason I am writing this, is because after watchng it I sat there and thought about what is important in life. Pride and respect in what you do and what you are. It supercedes all boundaries of nationalities, sexual gender and religion. PRIDE is all about this and the fact that is about a black swim team trying to show they can win in a biased, prejudiced USA of the times makes it even more fitting. If you can find it in the video store, pick it up and watch it. I think you will get your monies worth.

In thinking after the viewing I could see that the problems in today's world really has a lot to do with a lack of respect we have others  and a lack of pride others have in themselves. It seems to me that this lack of respect, people the world over, have for themselves and others leads to most of the world's problems. The lack of pride they have in themselves adds to the problem.

I am not just talking about mad bombers and suicide bombers here, I'm also speaking about big corporations as well. All of these entities have no respect for themselves or for others and so killing themselves or exploiting others is easy. This is the way they try to get repect. After all if you sacrifice yourselves for a religious or political belief won't you gain the respect of others, or so they believe. Corporations feel they attain much respect if they can gain more profits over the bodies of it's customers with cheap, faulty products and destruction of the environment, all to gain more money. With money comes respect, so it is thought. Far from it because you usually end up buying the respect and not earning it. What they fail and do not want to acknowledge, is that respect can't be purchased, it must be earned. The bombers don't have the respect of their peers really, because if they did they would not want to see them dead for some false ideals that so called religion might bring.

You have to be alive to be proud of what you do and  who you are and you have to know that the  money you earn goes for something worth while in life to be proud of yourself. You can sacrifice your life for others who will never think of you past a few days as you were not important enough to them to even care if you aboput your right to life. You can cheat and steal and cut production costs by taking advantage of impoverished people around the world but you certainly don't have the respect of those people. The shareholders you get that extra money for will love the cash but don't even think for a moment that they respect you. They think of you as a commodity just like you think of the poor workers of the world as a commidity. You have no one's respect. You may think you have pride, but deep down you go home without any.

Pride: proper respect for one's own dignity and worth.

Everyone around you wants to take your pride away from you. Family members who want to keep you under their foot. The teachers who treat you as an annoyance in their lives; you are only there to earn them a living. The politicians who downgrade you  to a simple 'x' on a ballot. The employer who only sees you as a '$' sign. The police officer who sees you only as a potential lawbreaker. The religious fanatics who see you as an army in their holy war, not your holy war. The religious leader who forces you to confine your mind and body to norms that help them control your life. All these people don't care about your pride. only you can prove you have pride in yourself. If you are proud of your life then others will be sincerely proud of you. Pride in one's self, gains the respect of others.

Respect: to feel or show deferential regard for esteem. The state of being regarded with deference or esteem.

Do you respect your own worth?  Do you bend to the whims of  fanatical religious leaders that have no respect for you and act as a shepard to you, the sheep who follow blindly; never questioning their authority. They cause you to hate others, to show no respect for others or yourselves. They have so little regard for you that they take away your God given right to be seen by others, by forcing you to cover your entire bodies and sometimes faces as well. They make you the solictor's of lust so they take away your self-respect and make you feel no respect for who you are. Some political and religious leaders will take away your own respect for self to the point where you will be willing to kill your self, not for your ideals, but for theirs.

In this movie PRIDE I saw young people, who had little reason to be proud of themselves, change their course in life so they had reason to have pride in themselves and their accomplishments. In being proud for their accomplishments and determination they began the proccess of respect in themselves and finally they attain the lofty goal fo receiving the respect of their peers.

So there it is Pride and Respect the two things that would probably end the majority of the world's problems. Without the acknowledgement of these two, there will never be peace and stablity in this world. You just have to remember that Pride and Respect  do exist and that you have to have the determination to look for them every day all around you. Good luck.

Monday September 24, 2007
Yes, Allen Buist, maybe you are a moron

Monday September 24, 2007
Teacher fired for saying bible should not e taken literally

It is no wonder the rest of the world is seeing the United States as hypocrites and over all weird. The United States is the country that promotes democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of religion ad nausea, remember that fable. The country is rife with the lack of democracy, lack of freedom of speech and lack of civil rights. Sure they say they have it, but watch these freedoms disappear after a terrorist attack. The rest of the world has had terrorist attacks yet they did not change their freedoms as quickly as the USA did. They got hurt and the government quickly used it as an excuse to curb all sorts of freedoms. Makes you wonder why they fought in the last two world wars.

OOPS!!! Sorry this wasn't what I was going to write about but it just emphasizes the USA mentality. I read an article about a teacher being fired from a community college because he told the students not to take the Bible as literal truth. The silly thing is that this wasn't even a faith based college and yet some students complained the he was denying their religious beliefs.

These are college students for heaven's sake. They are supposed to be learning the different possibilities and truths of life and yet they censure their own teachers for suggesting something so fundamental to teaching, the possibility of opposing and varying opinions. What the hell has happened to those people? What happened to all the things we fought for in the sixties, the freedoms to speak and think and have more than one opinion?

Is this caused by fears of what is going on in the world or is it a sign of the gathering of religious forces for the religious wars that are just waiting around the corner for us? More and more Americans and others around the world are no longer thinking and questioning. They are accepting religious dogma as literal truth and not questioning the possibilities of different opinions.

I can not believe that, as the teacher said, he was fired because he did not believe the idea of talking snakes. What has the USA come to?? A sign of the coming Apocalypse I guess. Read the article below...

RED OAK, Iowa (UPI) -- An Iowa teacher says he was fired by a community college for telling students that they should not take the Bible as literal truth.

Steve Bitterman said that Southwestern Community College dismissed him Thursday, two days after some students complained about his remarks, The Des Register reported.

"I'm just a little bit shocked myself that a college in good standing would back up students who insist that people who have been through college and have a master's degree, a couple actually, have to teach that there were such things as talking snakes or lose their job," Bitterman said.

Southwestern President Barbara Crittenden said that the school could not comment on personnel matters. But she denied that Bitterman's free speech rights had been violated.

Bitterman taught a Western Civilization course at the Red Oak campus that was telecast to students at the Osceola campus. He said that some Osceola students apparently thought he was denying their religious beliefs.

Wednesday September 12, 2007
Phil Donahue...Body Of War

Last night I was reading about a film, that many people want to recieve an award here at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is called BODY OF WAR. A friend of  mine, one the other projectionists wanted to see BODY OF WAR real bad. Boy, when I go in today he should be pissed off at me because I'm going to tell him that after sitting next to the man who made the film, I managed to have a nice conversation with the man himself  PHIL DONAHUE.

We chatted for a while and told me some stories and payed the projectionists here at TIFF a great compliment. He noted that the projectionists at all the festivals have been to, have been problems but here in Toronto, according to all those having their pictures shown here, we are teh best they have ever seen. Well that was a great compliment. Makes those 16 hour days worthwhile, doesn't it.

Now here is the funniest story he told me. It seems that when Robert Redford worked on BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID he had made sure that the bullets where heard on screen would be luder than everything else. He went to great lengths to make sure of this. He got them just right.

Now sometime later when it was taken to a film festival (I don't remember which one he said because I started laughing) the film staerted playing and when the bullet shots came on they sounded like pphhffft! pphhfft!!! Redford was really upset and ran up to the projection booth to find out what had happened to his precious bullet shots. The projectionist told not to worry, he made sure that he turned down the  volume when the bullets came on so it wouldn't disturb anyone. Yah have to love it.

Mr. Donahue mentioned he was married to Marlo Thomas and did I know her? Who could forget THAT GIRL. We hasd a good laugh over that as well. He was a very congenial person and easy to talk to and it would have been great to spend more time with him. There is a rule here in Tinsel Town North, talk to them, shake their hands but don't take up too much of there time. Too bad, he had a lot of stories to tell.

So after all this I send a note to the daughter and wife about this and what do I get back from my daughter???? She wants me to get off my ass, find BRAD PITT , have a chat with him and then bring him home back to her. To quote her..."Now that should'nt be too hard to  do now should it". Yeah right and I have a chance of winning the  big one in the lottery as well.

Sunday September 09, 2007
Vinnie's gone to TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival)

Yup, I am at the Toronto International Film Festival for a while. working, running around trying to see movies and cursing everytime I'm a few seconds from meeting the stars. I missed Matt Damon and Ben Affleck because I decided to stop for a calzone instead of  being a few minutes early to my afternnoon gig.

I was sort of hoping to write something everyday of what is going on but unfortunately today was the first opportunity I had. I'm up around 6:00 am and then I subway it the theatre I'm supposed to work at by 7:30 or 8:00 am..... arraghhh!!! How can I go star hunting if I'm so busy. Well anyway I get to make them look good on the screen and I light them up really good when they speak to an audience and Ieven make sure the audience can hear them. They owe all this to the hard working guys here with  IATSE Projectionist LOCAL 173.

Today is Sunday and I got to see a film that Festival goers will not be seeing this year. I was able to worm my way into a buyers screening of  Jean-Jacques Annaud's new french film called DEPART POUR LE SON. You will remember Annuad film that he did a few years back called QUEST FOR FIRE. I really enjoyed this film about a village that exists beore greek civilization grew to what it became. It is on an island where humans and mythological creatures exist. I will be writing this one up later so you can read about it on www.i-reviewmovies.com ; keep in mind this film is now looking for a distributor so it will  not be out right away.

Lots of other interesting films here but the the strangest "how are going to advertise this movie on tv and newspapers" is called , and please not I will have to put in funny symbols to protect some sensibilities.... YOUNG PEOPLE F#*KING . Yeah interesting movie, I only saw bits and pieces but it would have even made Andy Warhol jealous. They had their big premiere party at WICKED one of the hottest swinger's clubs in Toronto.Okay so I don't recommend taking the kids to this one...BUT!!! If you don't mind some violence then try to see EX-DRUMMER.

Toronto is hopping and I'm working and sleeping...speaking of which if I don't go lay down for the next hour or so I be useless tonight.

Signing off from TIFF's hotel where we are all shacked up when we are not slaving. Oh and remember if you happen to come to Toronto and you see GEORGE CLOONEY ...do not, I repeat DO NOT ask film anything about his personal life as he may hit you.

Thursday August 30, 2007
One School System

Monday August 27, 2007
Street racers...no sympathy for them

As much as I hate the idea of any young person being killed at an all too young of an age, I find it hard to feel too much sympathy for them or their relatives or their friends. As a parent, believe when I say I can understand the heartache thet comes with these tragedies.There have been quite a few of them lately and for whatever reasons these happened I find it hard to blame any law enforcement officer for what happened.

These kids had parents, who knew the type of cars they had & the driving records they had. Where were the parents in all this. Why are these kids being so stupid...well one of the causes is the movies. Being a big movie fan this is hard for me to say but this is one of the chief causes of the attitude towards driving. Case in point watch REDLINE or the FAST AND THE FURIOUS movies. Even I feel the magical lure of the idea these films present. As youngsters back in the fifties and sixties we felt the urge to race after seeing VANISHING POINT or TWO LANE BLACK TOP or GONE IN 60 SECONDS. It can't be helped. Without the banning of this type of film, how do we reign ourselves in.

We first off have to make sure we understand that these are fictional movies made under controlled conditions with special rigged situations. The real world is not written by a script writer and is not controlled  by special effects co-ordinators and people can die when trying the stunts in movies. BUT...no matter what I say the rush of the trying is incredible and heart pounding. Anyone who has tried stunts and lived will understand what I am saying. When I drove down a country road and did a Steve McQueen air jump on a steep bridge, it was exhilerating...stupid but exhilerating. I survived and have never done it since. Flying over the crescent of a hill, 5 to 10 feet in the air and slamming down on to hard pavement and still in control of the vehicle is a thrill,  I could have been killed but hey, I saw that it looked so cool in BULLET, I just had to do it. I did it at night on a quiet country road to lessen taking the chance of hurting anyone but it was still a stupid thing to do.

So, back to topic. Parents have to do their best to try to make their children understand the difference between fiction and reality. Police have to understand the thrill these fast car rides give after all they will be hard pressed to tell you that they themselves do not find it heart pounding when they are chasing someone down. Education will help and more off road places where kids can do these thrill rides in their cars would be of help as well.

Now when that 20 year old young man was killed recently while he was trying to outrun the police, well he deserved what he got, but his passegers didn't. He was already breaking the law driving while under suspension. If his parents and his girlfriend had advised him in not breaking the law then he may have been alive today. These close family members may have tried to warn him and he may not have listened as most young people fail to listen because as young people, they know it all. I certainly did and most now surviving adults with children of their own certainly knew it all as teenagers as well. We are the lucky ones; we survived our own stupidity.

To all the young people out there I only have this to say. Your parents were probably as foolhardy as you were and survived. Talk to them because they will all have stories to tell of their stupidity and the stupidity of the friends that failed to survive. You may learn something that could save your life...but then again you probably know it all; so some of you will still do what you want. I only hope that if you do something stupid, you survive and that those with you and around you do as well.

For those of you who do not survive remember, it will be hard for anyone except your parents and family to feel sorry for you. I do feel sorry for any police officers involved with you because they will feel the pain of what happens even if it isn't their fault. They have a job to do and these men and women are the ones we should feel sorry for because they may help cause a death by trying to protect you, John Q Citizen, and they will feel the pain in their soul all their life. They are parents as well.

Think before you do.

Thursday August 23, 2007
Microsoft the new terrorist?????

This is an article you have to read if you own a computer. This is scary. I consider what Microsoft received a patent for as a new form of terroism. Commercial terrorism.

This new patent they have gotten will allow Microsoft to actually invade your computer harddrive and see everything you have on your computer and then they will send you advertising on your computer while you work on it.

Not only are these assholes going to be able to send you advertising when your don't want it but they will know all about your business data, your personal data, those nasty pictures of you and your wife, the donkey you like to play with and afflilations to any groups or other people. Shite, it's like Big Brother only instead of the government it will be Bill Gates peering into your life.

I can't help believing one of two things here. First, that government  agencies are using Microsoft to spy on you. They will know everything about you, your business, where you are going, who you are seeing and whether you like the ladies, the men or the little children. No, people, don't even try to look at the potiental good side. There is no good side if the government and law agencies have all this info on you. There is nothing out there worth losing your privacy for...period...better dead a free person then a living caged animal. It's bad enough we have GPS tracking and now chips to go under you skin for tracking and holding all your information.

We are being numbered, catagorized, watched, kept track of and spyied on from satellites. Technology has bad sides people, really. Ahh...this brings up memories of the sixties television show...THE PRISONER. The populations of the world should watch it and learn. Freedom is everthing!!!!!

We should even have freedom from having to watch blasted advertising. It's bad enough that we now have to watch corporate commercials when we pay to see a movie but to have to watch unwanted commercials while we work on our computer really stinks.

Now the second reason for doing this of course will be really good for Microsoft. While scraping your harddrive they will be able to tell if you are running any unpurchased Microsoft product. There is the real reason. Thay want to force you to buy, buy, buy from them of course. The only other thing to ask yourself is this, if they can get in to read your computer, then can't hey also write to your computer. They can add or delete WHATEVER they want. Chilling isn't it.

If you own a computer, once Microsoft begins to employee this patent then the biggest loser will be the internet.Why, because the only way to shut out Microsoft will be to shut out the internet connection to your computer.

Terrorism is all about fear...so tell me why aren't Microsoft, terrorists???

Well, click below and read the article.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Thursday August 23, 2007
Islamist groups turn to YouTube

Yes sir people terrorist groups are now using YOUTUBE to spread their shite around the world. Read this below.

MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- Islamist groups in eastern Asia have turned to YouTube for fundraising, posting video clips apparently aimed at rich Middle Easterners.

Abu Sayyaf, a group blamed for major terrorist attacks in the Philippines, has put up two video clips, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported.

Another group, the Malaysian branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir, has put up an hourlong video that appears to be professionally edited.

A spokesman for the security forces in the Philippines said that the Abu Sayyaf video clips are segments of an hourlong video that has been distributed widely among Islamist groups. The speakers use Arabic or have their words translated into Arabic subtitles.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir work, "How Much Longer?" is a documentary on the 20th-century history of the Muslim world, including the fall of the Ottoman Empire and European activities in the Mideast.

Read it? Good, now think of  what Hitler could have done with YOUTUBE.

Hey YouTube guys, maybe you should consider removing terrorist organizations videos. Helping to spread the good word is kinda stupid guys. After all these guys can be way scarier then Viacom suing you. Oh wait Viacom only sues you, they won't threaten to blow you up. Maybe some erstwhile citizens should consider YouTube an arm of the Taliban and take you to court and sue you for spreading terrorist philosophy around the world.

When is the world going to realize that these Islamic terrorists are set on our destruction and that they want to take over the entire world. It's not like they didn't try it before. Remember how they spread like a virus all all across Africa and into Europe in  early 800 AD and held on to it for over 200 years.

People take off the blinders and realize that without even trying these guys will eventually control world politics...if we let them. They already are trying to buy more and more businesses in the United States and around the world. Conquest by business. Conquest...they did it before and they can do it again. Now, mind you, while they were in power in those early centuries they did some incredible scientific work, engineering, philosphy and art. So, we do have something good to look forward to.

I just wish I could get over the Taliban's and Islamists urges to kill us, cover up our women, treat women like foruth class citizens (hell, sometimes they give the impression their donkeys are worth more) and convert us to Islam and then have us on our knees praying three times a day, etc, etc....

Thursday August 23, 2007
WE HAVE FAT VIRUSES....YIPPEEE!!

Well, folks it seems that researchers have found that there is an obesity virus out there. Here's the article:

Common virus may contribute to obesity

BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggested that infection with a common virus might be a contributing factor in the development of obesity.

Louisiana State University researchers said they've found laboratory evidence that infection with human adenovirus-36 -- long recognized as a cause of respiratory and eye infections -- transforms adult stem cells obtained from fat tissue into fat cells. Stem cells not exposed to the virus, in contrast, were unchanged.

In addition the researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center identified a specific gene in the virus that appears to be involved in the obesity-promoting effect.

"We're not saying that a virus is the only cause of obesity but this study provides stronger evidence that some obesity cases may involve viral infections," said Dr. Magdalena Pasarica.

The findings, which could lead to a vaccine or antiviral medication to help fight viral obesity, were presented Monday in Boston during the 234th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Copyright 2007 by United Press International
Thank God!!! I thought I just ate too much. Yeah, no matter how much we would like to blame a virus for our chunkiness, it just plain has to do with to many snack times with the ol' junk food.

Hey wait I bet this is a conspiracy......I think the junk food companies probably are behind this research. They want us to think our chunkiness is not caused by their unnecessary sugar, fat foods. I can see it now, all of us gorging ourselves on moon pies and saying that we only eat them because we have to feed our virus or IT will eat away at us. Don't worry though, now that researchers think a virus may cause some obesity, some drug company will develop a pill to cure us...the only side effect may be that we will still be fat but the virus will be dead....or maybe we will be dead.

Yeah, that's it...it's a new conspiracy....and all this time I thought the obesity bug was created by the bigg macc, the whooppperr, mr. Krystie, dingger dongers and cokita coola and poopsie. No, I am not having problems spelling, I'm just trying to protect the innocent. Now go out and kill that bug.

Monday August 13, 2007
Canadians free to do what...maybe not...soon

I got this note form a friend of mine. At first I laughed about it and then I realized that it was a tad more serious. Here it is in quotes...

"Not unexpectedly, it's beginning.

Friday August 10, 2007
Russians want to own Canada underwater

Boy the Russians must be desperate to try and claim underwater Canadian soil as theirs. What? They don't have enough land of their own

I read that they were saying it was an extension of their shore, underwater. Ahhh...Russian guys...are you  a special kinds of moron??  Are you guys not aware of the fact that all the earth above and below is connected...duhh!!! You guys must all live in HOMERLAND...doh!!!

Wait a second. Is this their way to prove that they own the world, or this Putin's way of showing he really is a moron. Maybe they want all of us to have a good laugh on them...after all Russians are fun people. Okay lets give them what they want....bwahaha!! hahahahahahahahaha!!!

Now get your fraggin' flag off our continental shelf, idiots.

Friday August 10, 2007
STEVE IS BACK

Good news people.

For all of you who know Steve, from The Old Starlite Drive-In,  you will be happy to know that he has returned from his tour of duty in Afghanistan in one piece thank God. We are all so happy to know he made it back safe and sound and that he will not have to go back.

I'm pretty sure he will never want to go back. Steve has changed a bit since being over there, so bear with him if he's not as talkative or as exuberant, he saw many nasty things in Afghan.

If anyone wants to send him any hellos or best wishes, send them to us here at the starlite page and we will forward them to him.

Great to see you back big guy.

Friday August 10, 2007
Press One For English

I am a strong believer that when you go to live in a country; it should be made mandatory that you attend classes to learn the language of the country. I have nothing against anyone speaking their native tongue, after all I speak Italian.

When you go to a new country, I would assume that it is to start a new life and be part of that countries life and therefore it would stand to reason that you learn how to communicate in your new homes native language.

Yeah I know maybe we should have all learned to speak North American Indian when we first came here but forget that dead horse okay.

The trouble is that as a free continent we have allowed others to migrate here and try to change our way of life. This happens slowly and insidiously. BUT...I don't remember us old immigrants being given that opportunity, we had to learn to survive in our new home....NOW, instead governments try to bend over backwards to allow us to speak whatever we want. WHAT THE FRAG IS THAT ALL ABOUT. You get government information machines that allow you to follow instrctions in various languages. Phone systems actually ask you which language you want to talk in. WHAT THE FRAG IS THAT ALL ABOUT!!!!

You know, I am going to Mexico again soon and I like it down there and I intend to go often...so you know what I did...I STARTED LEARNING SPANISH...I figured I'm in their country so I shouldn't expect them to learn English. I should learn Spanish; it makes sense doesn't it...ORA, ESCOCHE ET REPEATE...

If I am going to someone else's country to live I should learn the language. It should be mandatory to learn your new home's native language before receiving citizenship. What is wrong with that? Nothing.

Lo Siento, if I have offended any of you...ahh...heck no, I'm not sorry.

Now listen to this video and I think you will find that it is not too much to ask...

PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH

Friday August 10, 2007
Chilling Muslim demonstration in London

Hey, it's been a while since I sat down to write on the ol' blog. I stayed away most from lack of time and because too many things made me angry and I just wanted to chill...then someone goes and sends me this video to watch and it got me all riled up again. Why don't you watch it and then you can read the notes on my thoughts.

I try to keep an even keel but I gotta tell ya when you listen to the sh*t that is spouted by the demonstrators then you can really feel you blood start to boil and you start to get angry. Then you feel ashamed that you feel the way you do. Well don't be because these guys are pushing all of the right buttons and it's time to realize the dangers ahead for all of us.

Remember that these radicals believe like us the Saviour will come to Earth...but only after the apocalypse...which most of them are more than willing to bring about.

Oh and just in case you think I am just an anti-Islamic nutcase, keep in mind that I believe that the US is certainly not on the side of the angels either. So there you go watch the video and make up you own mind and maybe then go tell some political correct Mac Master teacher to take her Burka appreciation day and shove it...or better yet if she loves burks so much she should move to a country where she can wear it all the time and become a second  class citizen...oh...wait...a no class citizen...no wait... not even a citizen.

Watch... Chilling Muslim demonstration in London

Friday May 04, 2007
John CUsak speaks out

Wednesday April 11, 2007
I breathed a sigh of relief

My heart goes out to the  families of the six Canadian soldiers  killed this week in Afghanistan. Such a waste of lives, trying to do some good for those who don't necessarily care or want us in their country.

All I know is that I waited with baited breathe, a  fear in my heart just like many others waiting to hear who the fallen were. Some of you know that our own Steve Gardiner is over there and every time something happens over  in that dreadful place my heart jumps in fear something has happened to him.

I can hardly imagine how the families of soldiers feel and hold it together when this type of news hits the airwaves, it's hard enough on the friends. I can't begin to imagine how they hold it together when they find their sons or daughters are the victims. I applaud and stand beside our Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan but I just don't understand why we're even there. I just shake my head and wonder why.

Wednesday April 11, 2007
Tom Hanks to receive $50 million for the sequel to Da Vinci Code

Angels & Demons  the sequel to Sony Film's Da Vinci Code is moving ahead but to do so they feel that Tom hnaks has to come back and to make sure of that the studio is paying Hanks the largest salary ever paid to an actor in the history of Hollywood.

This is one of the reasons you pay so much a ttheatres and so much for your popcorn. Let me make this perfectly clear....are you listening? Good. No one person is worth a $50 million paycheck to star in a movie....NO ONE...ABSOLUTELY NO ONE....EVER!!!!!!!!!

Hollywood should never cave in to this type of blackmail from actor's agents. No wonder films cost so much to make. I love Tom Hanks as an actor but this type of news just makes him a greedy s.o.b. in my eyes from now on. I hope that Sony confirms that this is not really the case but just rumours.

Wednesday April 11, 2007
The MPAA wants permission to legally break the law

The MPAA and the RIAA have reached a new low in their anti-piracy fight of trying to bankrupt blue collar individuals.

It seems the MPAA, those guardians of Hollywood's pocketbooks, are trying to get the legal right to break the law to catch insidious film pirates. They want to be exempt from a new California law that makes it illegal to lie and make false statements about their identities to get personal information on internet users. California is proposing this law to tighten up state privacy laws by preventing the use of false and misleading practices to get personal information.

The MPAA were joined by the recording industry's RIAA in stating that it was sometimes necessary for their investigators to use subterfuge in order to gain information on pirates working and pushing their wares online. They sometimes have to act as potiential accomplices to get in good with these pirates. They feel that to catch world terrorizing teenagers from downloading crappy filmed versions of  Hollywood movies they nedd to be free to lie, cheat use deception and subterfuge to succeed.

You see they are arguing that without these exemptions the law would prevent the MPAA anti-piracy department and contract investigators from gathering the evidence they need to bring legal action against movie pirates who are stealing motion pictures and music. These brass balled big wigs at the MPAA seem to think that catching pirates of movies is a greater good then catching terrorists and killers. Boy, Hollywood sure is full of itself to think that they should have more powers then police forces and government agencies. You know if  they made a movie about this we would think it was all paranoid fantasy. Yup, truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. California and the rest of the world should tell the MPAA that they are not that important in the grand scheme of things and that they are not the end all be all in world events. This has nothing to do with protecting lives or property or a way of life, it has only to do with Hollywood and it's stars greed, pure and simple.

Stop paying actors $50 million to make a picture then you wouldn't have to sweat over the little things.

Wednesday March 14, 2007
ALL RELIGION SHOULD BE BANNED

That's my angry statement today.

I've made it pretty clear to most who will listen that though I am Catholic and do go to church that I think either all religion should be banned or at the least that no outwards show of religion be shown in any public place or on our bodies. The only place you should be able to wear any religious items are in your place of worship. That's right, that means no wearing a cross, a star of David,  a burkka, a turban or anything else that denotes ones religion. I figure that maybe this might stop the cause of so much distress in  the world. Most wars over the centuries have been motivated by something to do with religion as have most atrocities. Get rid of religion and we have less to fight about. At least if we kill ourselves it's because we are idiotic, savage animals and we can't put the blame on God. Contrary to what you may think God doesn't give a flying hockey puck about our wars and I doubt he is on any one religion's side. When you die you will go where ever we go and I doubt that we will get white wings, 98 vestle virgins or horns.

This tirade has come about today after reading another article about how the Catholic church's wise and benevolent leader feels about his flock. Yes I am being sarcastic. God will probably strike me down but for the sake of Christ when will these Popes learn to change with the times. Benedict is not a stupid man; he is well studied and educated so why doesn't he remember how religion changes with the times. Christianity was the biggest change along with Islam in all of history. People are fickle and will go to religions that suit their needs...IT IS THE WAY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN.

Churches have to realize that like governments they are their for their people and not the people, there for them. If more people stop becoming or convert from Catholicism then that religion will fade as did the beliefs in Zeus and Odin. Christians do not want to be sheep like Islam believers are. We want religion to be pliable to suit our needs, that change, as the world changes. We do not want to become fanatics (okay I know some of you are) that go around blowing ourselves up. Does the Pope really want us to be like Islamist extremist? I hope not because I would leave my relgion before I would except a Church that turns a blind eye or promotes this kind of behaviour.

Why all this rant? Well, the Pope has decided to confirm a few bugs up my ass once again. I absolutely hate it when the Church tries to blackmail it's own members and politicians. Once again the Pope has stated that if you believe in abortion or divorce and if you are a politician who goes along with these ideas then they are not to be given the eucharist. What a bunch of horsesh!t. The Pope should keep his pompous nose out of government. By denying communion to politicians it is blackmail and nothing else. I do not belive in abortion but since I am not female than I do not believe I should have a say in that decision and neither does he being a male.

You see I have always had this belief that if we are to accept God and that God is all wise and benevolent then we have to acknowledge that what we have is God given...that he helps man learn to do what we do. If that is the case then God would never have given us the knowledge to perform abortions. If the Church tells us that God gave us free will then why does the Church feel it is within their power to take that free will away from us. Why does it try to blackmail politicians if they exert their free will? Why because the Church has continued to be  a pompous, arrogant ass.

Let people think for tehmselves and they will stay with the Church. Let priests marry like in Christ's days and more men will become priests. Let women become priests because I doubt very much that God gives a damn whether priests are men only. If people feel that divorce or abortions are something they need, then that is between themselves and their God. The Pope wonders why there are less Catholics and less priests...well get you head out of your butt and use the brain God gave you and the knowledge you attained from study.

Oh and just in case you think I forgot...the same goes for you Islamists...join the real world and come into the 21st century. Christ and Mohammad (praise be his name) are products of centuries past and not everything they taught applies to the modern age. The centuries change the world and change the way things happen. Join the modern world and realize that women are not second class citizens. They should be able to become priests and imans. They should not be considered tempters of men or chattel to be bartered and they should not be covered up because some pompous males think that they will only tempt men to evil. Thanks for the thought guys but I don't need that kind of protection from myself. I think I can control myself around an uncovered woman. I am not going to become gay because a gay priest says mass and I am not going to get a sex change because women can say mass.

Once again, see if  we banned all religion then we wouldn't have to worry about all this. Think on it and if you disagree send mail and I will put it online.

Wednesday March 14, 2007
VIACOM sues YOUTUBE

So, Viacom who owns most of Hollywood and television (okay I exaggerate) decided to sue Google YouTube for $1 billion  over copyright infringements. I am going to try and make this short. Viacom and others like them are idiots. Thy bitch about the Colbert Report and others being uploaded by viewres. How does this hurt them? I for one never even heard of the show but after seeing some clips I decided to watch the show whenever I was up late enough. SO how did they lose by this? Didn't YouTube just help them get another viewer? Heavens to Betsy if they should even think in that direction. These are the same people who bitched about putting movies on videos and now they own Blockbuster and make more money than God renting and selling videos. Viacom and you others...grow up into the new age and learn to use these online sites to your advantage not try to destroy those that can help you.

You know, I don't see them complaining about the trailers for their movies that are uploaded. I guess somehow they realize that showing trailers help them but showing clips from the tv shows hurts them. They are two faced business people who are just not using what little brains God gave them. Grow up and drop this suit.

For more info on this suit go to VIACOM SUES YOUTUBE

Saturday March 03, 2007
A Little Girl And Her Hijab

Interesting story making the papers and news shows this week  about a little eleven year old Muslim girl who plays soccer with a hijab on her head. It has received a great deal of press time for what seems to be a small thing. Well, this little girl and her teammates have made it a big issue that has dragged in the world soccer regulatory committee.

In Quebec a soccer referee decided that the Asmahan Mansour could not play on the field because she wore a hijab. The referee is Muslim so it wasn't some rascist thing. He felt that the scarf poseda danger to her and the rest of the players if it came off.  The referee is supported by the Quebec soccer federation even though there is no international rule. The coach immediately forfieted the game in protest. This has been the one bright spot, that Asmahan had the support of her coach and teammates.

The mother who is Muslim and does not wear the hijab herself said that the act was racial motivated until it was pointed out that the referee was Muslim. Obviously this was not a racial thing but something that has to be addressed because it can easily become a safety issue as the referee feared.

Obviously this has not been issue before as in Muslim countries women are not allowed to play soccer or other sports for that matter. In Canada Muslim women have the right to join in any sports just like any other citizen; so now it will become and issue. Does the hijab pose a danger? Of course it can; it may never happen but it could cause a serious injury.  If the scarf were to be accidently grabbed, would it come loose or could it tangle around her neck and choke her or snap her kneck? Could it fall on the field causing a child to trip on it and break a leg or worse? These situations are possible.

Girls who wish to cover their heads should not wear the scarf but a special tearaway head piece. If it is torn off I do not know the religious ramifications but obviously that should not be a concern. The issue of it falling on a field is a different story. If it did cause some damage to a fellow player then I'm sure that the affected parent will sue the girl, her parents, the coach, the league et cetra, I think I would. I;m sure when that happens then the federation will cover it's ass by not allow the use of the head covering but until then their answer has been to take a neutral stance and not regulate this situation at the present time. This stance may cost some one but that is the way sports is I guess.

I understand and feel for this little girl who wants to be a player but I can understand the worry of the referee. Sports organizations have done their utmost to protect children and even adult players in sports so soone ror later this will come back to haunt someone.

I just thought of an idea that seems to cover both problems...wear a special pullover top with a special tight hood that has the tear away collar and is attached to the back so it will snap off  if pulled on, protecting the player and it will stay attached to the pullover thus not falling on the field. THere you go that wasn't so hard. Her mother will probably solve the problem with just this idea.

Now let the kids go back to their game.

Sunday February 18, 2007
MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA PIRATES AUTHOR'S SOFTWARE.

I gotta tell ya folks this article absolutely made my day. It has got to be the funniest thing going right now.
The MPAA makes all sorts of wild accussations and is rightfully the most hated organization in the world right up there with Al Quaeda. They slant and alter facts to suit their purposes and cause great distress to everyone that they come in contact with.

Lately they have given false and misleading information to 20th Century Fox that caused this motion picture company to threaten the entire country of Canada with movie release boycotting. That's right, you see Fox feels that since most pirated films camcorded off of movie screens come from Canadian theatres in Montreal. They have threatened the theatre exhibitors with holding new releases back four months if they do not put pressure on the Canadian government to do something about this situation. According to studies, by the way, this is totally untrue, but the MPAA has fudged the figures to make it look this way.

The MPAA goes after anyone, company, parent, child even the family dog who pirate their movies. It seems thoough that it is okay to pirate films themselves on the other hand. When a film, THIS FILM NOT YET RATED, was made that criticized the rating system of the MPAA they used their duplicating facilities to illegally make copies of the movie for their own purposes. Do as we say not as we do, seems to be their belief. Now they even make use of stolen software for their website. This situation is probably due to some employee of theirs and not a corporate act. BUT.... you see the MPAA says that an employer is liable for the actions of it's employees; so if an employee pirates a film at work, they go after the employee and the employer.

Well now that they have an employee who stole Patrick Robin's (the software author) blogging software they to should be held accountable. I hope that Mr. Robin's hires a good lawyer and goes after their ass because he really can't lose. What defense is the MPAA going to use....they didn't know....well if they say that in court every lawyer defending a pirating case will use their words against them. I feel a big settlement coming Mr. Robin's way.
Like I said this looks good on those a$$h*les.

Saturday January 27, 2007
Criticized for his free speech

Saturday January 27, 2007
Amercian film makers try to tell Canada what to do...again!!

"While Asia is often cited as the home base of most movie pirates, 20th Century Fox maintains that as much as 50 percent of the world's bootlegged movies actually comes from Canada, with the overwhelming number being turned out in Montreal, the Ottawa Citizen reported Tuesday. The newspaper said that Fox has warned exhibitors in Montreal that unless steps are taken to crack down on illegal recording, it plans to delay the release of new titles. The Montreal Gazette recently reported that many kids are sneaking camcorders into theaters by hiding them in tubs of popcorn. It pointed out that in Canada, unlike many areas of the U.S., it is not illegal to use a camcorder in a theater and that the most a theater owner can do is ask a patron who is doing so to leave. Dianne Schwalm, senior vice-president for advertising and publicity at Warner Bros., told the newspaper, "Pirates are aware that unless the law here is changed, there's no penalty if they get caught recording -- only if they get caught trying to sell." "

The above is a short version of an article appearing on SHOWBIZ DATA.

Fox has a bad habit of always jumping headlong into stupid ideas without thinking them out. I understand their frustration but in this digital electronics age they are fighting a losing battle. They really think that all the pirated films come from video cameras in theatres. I guess that would account for the last Star Wars episode hitting the streets with the timing and footage code on the screen. Gee you usually don't see that on a theatre screen. Yes guys a lot of the pirated material comes right out from the studios.

Dvd rips end up on the pirate boards before their release dates, sometimes a few weeks before. So where are these copies coming from? Certainly not from a Canadian theatre chain.

They refuse to understand the sophistication of the electronic industry and that no matter what they do, the problem will always be there becasue someone will find a way to film in a theatre, steal a coded copy on a mini cruzer, or steal a dvd from the labs.

The answer is day and date releases of dvd's with the theatrical release. These have to be obtained from the rental places or properly downloaded from a website. It will be the only solution ...whether studios like it or not.

Films are great to see on a big screen...always have been and always will be, EXCEPT.... the younger generation seem to enjoy watching movies on tv, 7 inch portable dvd players, ipods and even on a 2 inch cell phone screen. Do the distributor's really think that these people will want to rush out and see a film on a big screen???

For the life of me I could never understand how anyone could watch Lord of the Rings or King Kong on a 2 inch screen but that's the way it is and that's the way it will probably stay for a long time. Big commercial businesses are trying hard to make us, consumers isolationists...stay at home movie watchers. The distributor's are trying to do the same thing  by making it clear that those great releases will be in the home dvd market in only 4 short months. So why waste your time going to a theatre. Any wonder why the new generation has no problem pirating films. They would rather spend their money on the newest electronics, so if they can see a movie from pirates they will and they can stay at home to do it.

To Bruce Synder at Fox who started this, I have to say, you want an end to piracy...stop charging the high distribution fees so theatres can charge less and get more patrons....better yet go back to the old system of having a picture play in only one theatre in  smaller cities like Hamilton, Burlington, Buffalo et cetra. At least you'll know where the picture was video taped. How about removing the 'gouge your eyes' out prices for the new dvd releases as well. You will probably sell a lot more at $10.99 over $25.99 Man I just heard you scream all the way up in Canada over that one. I know you're greedy and you want all the money you can make; so surely you may want to try to understand that lots of people out there in the "real" world are greedy as well and would like to hold on to their minimum wage earnings. Of course, since Hollywood lives in the "reel" world they wouldn't understand that little bit of logic.

Here is another idea for you. How about paying theatres the money to adopt the new technology to jam the video image in camcorders like they are with cell phones. They are using this tech in the U.S.A. to stop people from talking on their cell phones during movies.

The problem is that distributors want to use the new technology to cut their costs but refuse to understand that patrons like the idea of using their own tech to save money on seeing the films. It cuts both ways guys. When more digital projectors end up in theatres, do distibutors really believe that this won't make it easier to pirate films. There are people out there that laser slice satellite tv cards with sophisticated equipment to pirate cards...do they really believe that they won't find ways to grab digital movies from theatres.

Get 'Lucy out of the sky' and start coming into the new age. The film industry has to start delivering films to the home by computer and by charging reasonable fees so people will buy them. The rest of us, like myself will go to theatres and see them on a big screen. I thought Pan's Labrynth  that I saw on the big screen yesterday looked great. Will it look great on a 2 inch screen? No of course not.

 Oh, but wait,  I have an eleven foot screen in my back yard and digital projector that gives me a picture the size of the famous Cineplex VIP screening room screens. I guess I can see it large that way. In the winter I just watch them on my seven foot screen in the basement. When you're 6 feet from the screen....a 7 foot picture looks pretty big. I know my copy of King Kong looked great and so did Forbidden Planet and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.....and I only had to wait 4 months to buy them...get the point Mr. Synder.

Carry out this stupid plan of yours and you will just create more pirating and the government can pass all the laws you want and it will still go on. It certainly hasn't stopped the pirating of music and computer software has it? Probably 60% of the software run world wide is pirated. Go with this plan and by the time a Fox feature hits the screens in Canada at least 60% of the people will have seen the product and then what will the theatre chains do??? Go out of business or at the very least not bother to book your product.

I strongly believe that the theatre business as we know it is going to nose dive in the near future and that is why I have been pulling away from the theatre industry. I remember the Projectionist union in Canada used to tell us members that our jobs were safe. I remember getting my first Amiga Computer in the eighties and saying that the union would be in trouble someday as computers run more and more projectors. Well there are no union projectionists in the area, in Toronto and in most of Canada.  Silver City projector's start by computer now after some kid loads the film in. The members who tried to warn the union leaders were right, we were screwed by computers and guess what people at Fox, you will be screwed by them as well. I find it hard to feel  sympathy for you since you  helped screw my and other's repitore cinemas of the 70's and 80's by releasing films to video faster and faster to the public. We went out of business because of it, so don't expect us to feel sorry for your so called loss of revenue. You may have to find new ways to do business. Some rep theatres survive because they found new ways to do business and survive and so will you if you put more energy into that function rather than trying to flog a dead horse. The real world will move on woth you or without you...so start thinking about jumping on board with new and upraded business models.

Don't do what you are planning. Don't be part of the destruction of the film industry in Canada. Don't let your Foxbluster gat the better of you. Calm down and think on it and you  will see that they are wrong and that there are better ways to achieve your goal of world dominion or at least making lots of money. After all this is  all hyperbole and don't count on other distributor's following suit.

Oh, and if you think this is bad now....wait until some tech genius comes up with a way to bring those STAR TREK halodecks into our reality. The movie business can kiss it's ass goodbye when everyone can create their own interactive movies.

Saturday January 27, 2007
Congratulations on saving Nathan

You have all heard by now about the story of  Nathan Taylor's incredible rescue. I would like to throw in my 2 cents worth of congratulations to all those brave and hard working souls who risked themselves to save this young man. A job well done and you should all be proud.

Read the article by clicking HERE.

Once you have read the account of Nathan's rescue you can just feel for yourself that this story has the making a a great television movie. Someone should make this film to honour all those involved in saving  this young man's life.

Saturday January 27, 2007
Judge is right!

Ginnnah Muhammad a 42 year old Muslim woman went to court on a small claims case and lost. The judge in October of 2006 told her that he needed to see her face to determine her truthfullness and gave her a choice: take off  the veil while testifying or have the case dismisssed. She kept it on...he dismissed the case. The poor judge wanted to be to able to see her face to help him determine her truthfullness. I don't think that is too much to ask. Heck, he couldn't even determine if it was the same person under the veil.

What do these women do for passports? What do they do for driver's licences? What do they do when they fly and have to show there faces for passport purposes? Okay, I have to ask how the hell did they get into the country? Someone, either than their husbands must have seen their face at sometime. How do we know that the person under the veil is the person they say they are?

If I went to court and was being accused of something by a veiled person I would demand to see my accuser, it is the law of the land....repeat the law of the land. When I see female newscasters in the middle east on television and they are in public the are wearing the head scarves or veils...WHY????... because it is the law of the land. North Americans respect that law so why can't they respect our laws? Why because they believe they are better than us that's why?

Now some stupid appeals court has given this masked woman another crack at court and she still plans on wearing a niqab, the scarf and veil. She successfully appealed saying she was forced to make a chose between her religious beliefs and her case. She hopes this time a judge will listen to her case and judges the case on it's merits and not on her how she looks. Lady, no one cares what you look like, the judges just like to be able to see a person's expressions to help them decide and I think that if the new judge decides to listen to her then he should take the fact he can't see her face inot account and not decide in her favour. It is time that everyone...and I mean everyone who lives in this country respect the laws of the land. The courts have forced their judgments on Jehovah's Witnesses, so why are Muslims so special that the court can not impose the rules on them. If this woman wants her day in court then she should show her face to the judge...NO EXCEPTIONS.

If the court needs an idea of what it would be like if they go along with this woman, then we should all attend court one day with veils on...men and women and see how far we would get.

Oh, the court case by the way is over a dispute with a car rental agency. She is disputing the rental agencies $2,750.00 US charge to repair a vehicle broken into by thieves. First off the agency was stupid to rent a car out to her withouy seeing who they were giving it to. How did the agency know who they were giving it to. The person could be underage. Did her licence show her face...did she show her face to the rental agent. Was the rental agent on crack when he rented a car to a masked woman who could not be identified if she stole the vehicle?

My biggest sympathies would have to go to any police officer who pulled over one of these women. How could the officer identify the driver? What would they do? I just have a hard time picturing myself in the poor officer's position trying to decide on what  to do. Either way he would be in a world of hassle. So, let's cut out the hassle make the niqab ILLEGAL in North America. It is the only the just and right thing thing to do.

Tuesday January 23, 2007
Muslim Female Cop Nixes Handshake

This one beats then all. Over to London, England for this one. A muslim woman officer refused to shake hands with London's police chief during a graduation ceremony last month due to her relgious beliefs.

So to make things go smooth she was excused from the customary handshake with Chief Ian Blair. Her reason was that her faith prohibits her from touching a man other than her husband or a close relative.

A spokeperson said the request was granted only to ensure the smooth running of the most important event in an officer's career. It was also stated that she may be facing disciplinary action,

Muslim groups of course said that the officer's beliefs would not effect how she carried out her job and called for greater understanding of different cultures. Hey you want to live a different cultural style...go back to the homeland. It isn't going to affect her job? Come on.

I have to ask how did it go this far without this becoming an issue sooner. She obviously had to go through police training and I don't know how she managed to avoid touching a male during this period. What is she going to do when she has to touch a male in the public performance of her duties. "Excuse me sir, but would you mind putting these cuffs on yourself as I can not touch you...religious beliefs, I am sorry to say." Talk about bull pucks.

KICK HER OFF THE FORCE. Oh yeah and then kick the training personel off the force for not training her properly. Hey, she couldn't have gotten training if she couldn't touch men during her martial arts classes and disarming courses. Maybe it is okay to touch men if she is arresting them as that has no sexual connotation there...but wait what sexual connotation was there in shaking hands with her chief. Boy she is going to move up the ladder quickly isn't she....once again....KICK HER OFF THE FORCE, she doesn't belong there. Hey does she have to wear a headscarf so that a perp can pull it off of her and strangle her with it. Give the job to a female who can perform her duties and not insult her boss.

I wonder if the police department fired a Muslim male officer a while back because he refused his assignment to guard the Israeli embassy as there were Jews inside. If you can't do your job without discrimination then hand in your badge. Both of them should be booted. So that's by baised opinion and no I'm not a misogynist.

Tuesday January 23, 2007
Another Screwed Up Muslim Cleric In Australia

A while back a Muslim cleric in Australia caused quite a stir. This religious figure compared women who do not wear a headscarf to "uncovered meat" who invite rape. You can still read my comments on that one farther down in this blog.

Well now another crackpot Muslim Cleric who made his way back to Australia from the middle east has caused a public outcry. Sheik Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Center in Sydney’s western suburbs, has begun urging small children to become martyrs for Islam. To add to this he referred to Jews as pigs in a series of DVDs he has made. He tells Muslims to have children and offer them up as soldiers defending Islam.

You know if this was some white guy saying this crap, in most countries he would be deemed a racist and charged in a court of law, but oh no, if you are a Muslim cleric you can get away with saying this bull crap because we are afraid they might jihad us. When are they going to start deporting these guys. Send them back to their homeland where they can spout all this rhetoric to their hearts content.

At least most Muslim Australians say theat they do not go along with him and the government is considering charges. Let see how far that goes. Hey politicians time to act and send this guys back to their homeland and not in first class. Get rid of them. We don't need them and certainly moderate Muslims do not need the stigma this puts on  them.

If you want to read the full article click here...Australian cleric .

Friday January 19, 2007
Little Mosque On The Prairie

CBC launched it's new comedy LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE. If you don't know what that is, well it's North America's first Muslim television comedy series.

Did it work? Yes it did and I must say it was funny. They didn't skirt political issues or mores and fears from both sides of the fence.

Worth watching? Yes. Try to put it on your viewing list, it shouldn't disappoint. I am anxiously waiting for more episodes.

Friday January 19, 2007
The Voice Is Stilled

Sixty-eight years old and taken from the the people of Hamilton, all too young.

I've waited a few days now before writing this farewell note to an old friend. Bill Stirrup, the voice of Hamilton was taken by cancer at an all too young age. I listened to many tributes about him in the newspaper and on CHML and I wasn't sure if I was going to say anything here, but finally I thought that it wouldn't right if I didn't mention him here. This is my goodbye to the guy that was reponsible for dragging me into film collecting and giving me all the film trivia I ever needed. Only our mutual friend Harry Purvis knew more.

My aquaintance with Bill went back to the late seventies when I operated the Broadway Cinema. He quickly became a friend of all the staff , most of the patrons, my wife and myself . I don't even remember the first time we met but I do remember the fun times we had at all those after the show parties he attended in my home most Saturday nights.

We were there with him in his good times and during some of his bad times which will not be mentioned here. It was an honour that he trusted us enough to divulge his problems to us. I think he trusted both my wife and I enough to talk to us. Even through this time when you heard him on the air, he always sounded like he didn't have a care in the world. The mark of a real professional.

Over the years as our family grew and we moved on with our careers we saw less of Bill but whenever we saw him it was like no time had passed. We were busy and he was always busier. Now I wish that we had spent a bit more time with Bill. We all take too many friends for granted, but we should realize as we get older some of our friends will not be there when we finally think about them. Get together more often with your friends as time will go by all too fast and then it may be too late.

From all your old Broadway Cinema friends, Bill, we wish you a fond farewell and may your journey into the vast universe bring you in contact with all those great movie stars you loved so much. We have a lost a friend and Hamilton legend but someone out there is gaining a new friend. We will see you again someday.

Tuesday January 02, 2007
Dominic Agostino

I had a nice, pleasant surprise today when I opened the paper. There was a great three quarter page long article on my cousin Dominic Agostino who died three years ago. It was a wonderful article by Terry Cooke, a great friend of Dominic's. I am sure his mother Teresa (Cina to me), brother Ralph, and sister Mary will love to see this article. I would like to thank Terry for this fine rememberance at this time of year.

Here is the article from the Hamilton Spectator. Please take a few moments to read it. DOMINIC AGOSTINO

Tuesday January 02, 2007
Well This Is A Fine Way To Start 2007

So, a new year has begun. The world hasn't changed. From how the first day started it isn't too likely to change anytime soon. The new generation still craves violence as its soup de jour. North America is becoming more and more like the Roman Empire of old. Wars seem to loom everywhere over our all too vulnerable heads. The weather is all (expletive deleted) up. Where is the snow Canada is famous for....oops, it's moved down south. The New Year has begun.

Going through today's paper (Tuesday January 2, 2007) I see articles on Saddam's execution and the problems this is going to cause worldwide between Sunni and Shiite. Somehow we're all going to be caught in the middle. Bombings in Thailand. In Indonesia a jet crashed killing 90 and the same country they're still fishing people out of the ocean after a huge wave overturned a ferry. POSEIDON ADVENTURE anyone.

Some nut bar drives her car into our Prime Ministers gate to talk to him. In Newfoundland some teenagers go through the water and one dies. Denver is buried in snow so deep they need to fly planes over the area to find stranded citizens.

In Toronto an elderly church going female is greeted at her door with a Happy New Year and then shoot through the head. At least this morning the police caught the suspect. Maybe we will learn why he did it to this seemingly kind old lady and leaving her family standing there in horror as she died.

In Somalia the radical militant Islamic movement that killed in the thousands of the citizen's was finally put on the run with the help of the Ethiopian army. They do not take kindly to defeat these Islamic nut bars; now they promise to wage an Iraq-style guerilla war to continue the killing.

Canadian soldiers are still dying in Afghanistan; American soldiers are still dying in Iraq all helping people who still would rather see us dead.

Stupid people with dangerous dogs are causing the death and maiming of innocent children. One poor boy here in Hamilton will live while in England a little 5 year old girl was mauled to death. Why don't these idiots just take in a wild lion or tiger as a pet? These people who own these animals are idiots and they should be charged when something happens with these animals, they should go to jail. Parents in our society can be charged and convicted for crimes caused by their children yet they get a $150.00 fine when their animal ruins the life of a child or kills a child.

An employee gets badly burnt in a Hamilton pizzeria arson; a woman and her children are tied up and robbed during a New Year's Eve home invasion and at the same time three people killed in a head on collision in Port Colborne. New Year's Day a man took hostages in Hamilton.

...and to top everything off, someone stole a famous bronze statue in Oakville of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko right out the park. They cut him off at the legs. Police figure it would be melted down and sold.  This isn't such a strange thing though. You see in the last twelve months, there has been a rash of stolen statues, world wide. We have rising commodity prices for copper and bronze. Hey, people got eat so they steal... not really this is bigger....52 statues were stolen and scrapped....their value was over $52 million dollars.

Hasn't this been a great beginning to the New Year? Kind of scares you to think of what is in store for the rest of the year. Oh well...HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Friday December 15, 2006
Walmart finally figured it out.

Last year a very well off gentleman went into a Wal-Mart or so the legend goes. He had an extremely large selection of goods that he was purchasing. In his conversation with the clerk, he wished her a Merry Christmas. Her response was Happy Holidays. He asked her to please wish him a Merry Christmas. She told him that she could not because the company told them they were not allowed to say Merry Christmas. Again he insisted she wish him a Merry Christmas. Her response was the same. He told her to keep the items and that he would no longer be shopping at Wal-Mart.

I wonder if this was one of the reasons that Wal-Mart changed its policy this year and now has everyone wishing their customers a Merry Christmas. I guess to big business, money seems to be a good reason to bring the 'Merry Christmas' back into the Christmas season.

Everyone wants Canadians and Americans to respect other minority religious beliefs and yet it seems to be okay to disrespect Christians at their most important season.

I have always hated consumers who use their purchasing clout to have their way with business but now I'm starting to get a better understanding of those tactics. I despise myself for saying this but maybe it is time to show businesses that Christians are important to their bottom line. When Ramadan comes along, then feel free to wish them the best of their holiday as well; I don't care. It is their religion so wish them well at their time of the year. I know that I will be wishing Happy Hanukkah to the Jewish people I know at he beginning of their religious holiday today and so should you.

Yup...you got the money, you got the respect. Christians have money so let us have them show us some respect.

Friday December 15, 2006
Now we're really getting ridiculous

By now most of you have heard the absolutely idiotic judge in Toronto who had a Christmas tree taken out of the main area of a courthouse. Justice Marion Cohen, who oversees administration for the Jarvis Street Ontario Court of Justice, ordered a small artificial Christmas tree, decked in lights and ornaments, moved from the main lobby to an administration corridor. She told the staff that as a Christmas symbol it might alienate people of other creeds and cultures.

What a bunch of &%**$ bulls**t. No one seems to give a rat’s ass if they offend the majority of the population in Canada lately. Well I am offended, and I will be offended enough to write Premier Dalton McGuinty.  When it comes to voting next time the first question I will ask of the  politician  will be to ask them if they are going to continue this discrimination against Christians in a Christian country. If they are, then they will not get my vote. Maybe politicians and idiotic judges will start to realize that Christians have feelings as well and we are sick and tired of having our feelings and our faith hurt.

Today Hanukkah begins and Menorahs will be displayed and you know what I don't care if they go up in public places because I am not going to tell them that it offends me because it doesn't. So why should my religious symbols offend others. This is plain political correctness idiopathic behaviour by idiotic people who think they know what others want. This is pure crap and it is time for all Christians who give a damn to tell their members of Parliament both federal and provincial that enough is enough or we will see what happens during the next elections. I have been a Liberal all my life, but I swear, unless McGinty puts that damn tree back and tells others to cut this crap I will vote Conservative next time and I will do my best to help them win if they intend to keep at least some of our Christian values. We are citizen's of this country as well as minorities and we should not be discriminated against.

It's time for those who care, to speak up. This has nothing to do with Muslims, or Jews or Buddhists or anyone else. This has all to do with people who believe they know what is good for us and that they have the right to do whatever alleviates their guilt of whatever... I am just plain tired of it. You know what the worst part of all this is? That idiot judge has tried to tell me that a stupid pine tree (an artificial one probably) is a symbol of the Christian religion. Where in our religion does she see that it is stated that a tree is a Christian symbol. What next? If she sees a camel in a picture on a wall, is she going to think it is a symbol of the Muslim religion and have it removed as well? She’s' the worst kind of idiot... an idiot that sits in judgment of others on the bench... that is scary.

I hope if there is a hell (which I don't believe in by the way), that there is a special spot for idiots and rude, ignorant people like her.

Tuesday December 12, 2006
Putting the pagan yule back into yuletide

I just thought I would let you read this informative article...

JOHN MOORE

National Post

One of the great phony battles in the concocted North American culture wars has ended in defeat for the dreaded secular forces of evil. On the eve of the holiday shopping season, Wal-Mart announced it would put the Christ back in Christmas, instructing its robotic employees to replace "season's greetings" with "Merry Christmas." The world's largest retailer dealt such a staggering blow to effete, religion-hating liberals that many of us were put off our Ahi tuna and snobby Gewurztraminer (it's the new Riesling!) for hours.

Tuesday December 12, 2006
History lesson

I received this response to one of those Christmas letters going around. you know the ones I mean. They are telling us to respect Christmas. I even have one below somewhere in my previous comments. This letter is from Paul. I did not edit it but I did correct some spelling. Here it is...

Monday December 11, 2006
Airport plays Grinch

Friday December 08, 2006
On Being A Canadian

My friend Mary sent this to me and it makes a lot of sense. Read it and understand how many Canadians Feel.

So many letter writers have explained how this land is made up of immigrants.  Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people why today's Canadian is not willing to accept the new kind of immigrant any longer.

Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to Canada, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in Halifax and be documented.  Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times.  They made learning English a primary rule in their new Canadian households and some even changed their names to blend in with  their new home.  They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture.

Nothing was handed to them.  No free lunches, no welfare, no labour laws to protect them.  All they had were the skills, craftsmanship and desire they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.  Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out.  Canadians fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Sweden, and so many other places.  None of these first generation Canadians ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from.

They were Canadians fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan.  They were defending the Freedom as one people.  When we liberated France, no one in those villages was looking for the Ukrainian-Canadian or the German-Canadian or the Irish-Canadian.  The people of France saw only Canadians.

And we carried one flag that represented our country.  Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were.  It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here.  These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be a Canadian.  They stirred the melting pot into one red and white bowl.

And here we are in 2006 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges.  Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes a CANADIAN PASSPORT and a GUARANTEE of BEING FAITHFUL to THEIR MOTHER COUNTRY.  I'm sorry, that's not what being a Canadian is all about. Canadians have been very open hearted and open minded regarding immigrants, whether they were fleeing poverty, dictatorship, persecution, or whatever else makes a person adopt a foreign country.  And, I suppose when we say ADOPT, we think of those aforementioned immigrants who truly did ADOPT our country, and our flag and our morals and our customs. 
And left their wars, hatred, and divisions behind. 

 I believe that the immigrants who  landed in Canada in the early 1900s deserve better than that for  the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life.  I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags, fighting foreign battles on our soil, making Canadians change
to suit their religions and cultures, and wanting to change our country's fabric by claiming discrimination when we do not give in to their demands.

I was one of those immigrants and I turned down dual citizenship because Canada is my country and my home and if I had to fight for a country it would be for Canada only and not the country of my birth. My parents left their homeland for something better and not for the same. Maybe some other immigrants to this country should try it. Keep your religion, keep your style of dress but remember you should be loyal and fight for one country. The country you've adopted. If you can't and the homeland's idealogy is too strong and the ties to difficult to break then may I suggest going back to where it is obvious you want to be. If you truly want a new life in Canada then discard your old ways and your old ties and say only that you are willing to die for one country only...CANADA.

Friday December 08, 2006
What a pile of crock

British companies ban Christmas displays

LONDON (UPI) -- British law firm Peninsula says nearly 75 percent of companies in the country are choosing not to display Christmas decorations.

The law firm said companies are avoiding yuletide displays in the workplace out of fear that an offended party could sue for discrimination, Sky News reported Tuesday.

"Christmas trees and decorations may well be a thing of the past in many workplaces this Christmas as political correctness culture has spread to the workplace," Peter Done, managing director of Peninsula, told Sky News.

"Although employers who are enforcing the ban are skeptical and dismayed by this trend, they feel they have little choice in the matter due to the threat of litigation, as they have to protect themselves, their reputation and their livelihood."

Copyright 2006 by United Press International

Have you ever seen such a pile of crap in all your life. Seems like these guys just don't want to put up Christmas decorations. How far does anyone think this would go in court. Maybe it's time the government or the courts made it law that it is impossible to sue other because of religious decorations. Does this mean I can sue Muslims for wearing their head scarves at work during Ramadan and can I sue a Jewish person for having a Menorah at work during Hanukka and what about a Christian who is seen wearing a cross at work. These could all be construed as religious decorations in the workplace.

Besides all this, what is the difference between a workplace and a public place where Christmas decorations go up. Does that mean religious groups should be allowed to sue cities over decorations? Seems to me we've all become a bunch of  cowards and chickenshits.

Wednesday December 06, 2006
Are We Paranoid or Is This Neseccary To Say

Tuesday December 05, 2006
Keep CHRIST in Christmas

At this time of year this Catholic boy would like to remind you to stop trying to be politically correct about Christmas.

It is Merry Christmas and not Happy Holidays. Say Merry Christmas to everyone. Put up a Christmas tree not a Hanukkah bush, an Allah plant, or a holiday hedge.

Say it... CHRISTmas... it is the time of year we Christians celebrate the bith of Christ...remember him?

I resent people telling me that we should be thoughtful of other religions and not try to cram it down their throats. NO ONE is cramming it down their throats. I have found every Muslim I know, every Jewish person I know, says Merry Christmas to me and they do not say Happy Holidays. We Christians say it, not them, because at this time of year they have more respect for our religion than we have.

I say Happy Hanukkah and Happy Ramadan and I say MERRY CHRISTMAS. Try it...it rolls off the tongue real easy and you may discover that you are not offending anyone. You just think you are because you hear on the news...after all it makes good copy.

New Line Cinema is sponsoring a Christmas Festival in a city in the USA with their film THE NATIVITY STORY. Around the stalls and booths various monitors will show scenes and trailers from the upcoming movie. Now, it seems that some idiotic political correct asswipes (sorry this is the least offence term I could think of) think that this can not go on at a Christmas festival because it can offend those who are not Christians. DUH!!!!

Let's see the festival is about the celebration of Christmas. If you are not celebrating Christmas then the chances are you will not be going there to celebrate. If you do go there just for the fun of it then you know what you are going to, so the chances you will be offended should be nil.

Stop trying to protect others, they can do it themselves.  Needless to say the festival is continuing as planned.

It is time to take a stand against these nuts who advocate this pc crap. Take a stand and say it to everyone...MERRY CHRISTMAS. Now pass this on and have your friends come here and read this.

I love this time of year and I especially love going to Christmas mass. If I offended anyone...tough doodles (I really wanted to say a stronger word starting with 's').

Tuesday December 05, 2006
Abuse of Women

Monday November 20, 2006
O.J and FOX

Good grief does O.J. SIMPSON lack a brain or did it die with his wife.

The man is nuts, and if any of you watch the Fox Show that outlines how he would have killed his wife if he actually had done it, then you're nuts as well.

It's Christmas season soon so instead of watching that idiot program, go buy me a Christmas present instead.

How I bought a Christmas present if I had actually bought a Christmas present for my wife.

Some people are just nuts. Some networks are just nuts and greedy.

Monday November 20, 2006
Learn from history...

The article below hits things square on the head. We as a people really have a hard time learning from history, don't we? In this era we can thank politically correct people for this lack of intelligence and a weakness to stand up for ourselves and grow a pair. Someday our children and grand children will pay for our lack of  decisive action in what is happening int he world today. Anyway read the article and make up your own mind.
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Loving thine enemy
The more the Islamists step on our toes, the more we waltz them gaily around the room
 
Mark Steyn
National Post

Thursday, November 16, 2006

After September 11, the first reaction of just about every prominent Western leader was to visit a mosque:
President Bush did, so did the Prince of Wales, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, the prime minister of Canada and many more. And, when the get-me-to-the-mosque-on-time fever died away, you couldn't help feeling that this would strike almost any previous society as, well, bizarre. Pearl
Harbor's been attacked? Quick, order some sushi and get me into a matinee of Madam Butterfly!

Seeking to reassure the co-religionists of those who attack you that you do not regard them all as the enemy is a worthy aim but a curious first priority. And, given that more than a few of the imams in those mosque photo-ops turned out to be at best equivocal on the matter of Islamic terrorism
and at worst somewhat enthusiastic supporters of it, it involved way too much self-deception on our part. But it set the tone for all that followed, to the point where with each bomb or plot -- from September 11 to London to Toronto -- the protestations of Islam's good faith grew ever more fulsome.

Consider the name given to the current conflict: "war on terror." Wait a minute. Aren't wars usually waged against named enemies? Yes, but, to the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: There are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated. In part, it's societal forgetfulness. In an electronic age, a present-tense culture,
we assume that social progress is like technological progress: It can't be reversed. Just as you can't disinvent the internal combustion engine, so you can't disinvent women's rights. Just as the horse and buggy yielded to the steam train and the Ford Model T and the passenger jet, so the advanced social-democratic society will march onward to state day care and 30-hour work weeks and gay marriage and ever greater ethnic diversity -- and nothing can turn it back, certainly not a lot of seventh-century weirdbeards.

Many of us figure the Islamist plan to re-establish the caliphate is the equivalent of that moment in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie when plankton roars, "I'm going to rule the world!" Towering over him, SpongeBob says, "Good luck with that." But you never know: It might be that we're the plankton. "Our enemies are small worms," Adolf  Hitler told his generals in August 1939. "I saw them at Munich." In Europe today, as in the
thirties, the political class prostrates itself before an insatiable force that barely acknowledges the latest surrender before moving on to the next invented grievance. Indeed, a formal enemy is all but superfluous to requirements. Bomb us, and we agonize over the "root causes."
Decapitate us, and our politicians rush to the nearest mosque to declare that "Islam is a religion of peace." Issue bloodcurdling calls at Friday prayers to kill all the Jews and infidels, and we fret that it may cause a backlash against Muslims. Behead sodomites and mutilate female genitalia, and gay groups and feminist groups can't wait to march alongside you denouncing Bush and Blair. Murder a schoolful of children, and our scholars explain that to
the "vast majority" of Muslims "jihad" is a harmless concept meaning "healthy-lifestyle low-fat granola bar." Thus the lopsided valse macabre of our times: the more the Islamists step on our toes, the more we waltz them gaily round the room.

As French philosopher Jean-Francois Revel wrote, "Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself." During the Danish cartoon jihad, The New York Times gave a routinely pompous explanation of why it would not be showing us the representations of the Prophet: Sensitive news organizations, the editors explained, had the duty to "refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols." The very next day, the Times illustrated a story on the Danish controversy with a piece of New York "art" from a couple of seasons earlier showing the Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung.

Multiculturalism seems to operate on the same even-handedness as the old Cold War joke in which the American tells the Soviet guy that "in my country everyone is free to criticize the president," and the Soviet guy replies, "Same here. In my country everyone is free to criticize your president." Under the rules as understood by The New York Times, the West is free to mock and belittle its Judeo-Christian inheritance, and, likewise, the Muslim world is free to mock and belittle the West's Judeo-Christian inheritance. If one has to choose, on balance Islam's loathing of other cultures seems psychologically less damaging than the Western elites' loathing of their own.

Insurgencies, whether explicitly terrorist or more subtle, persist because of a lack of confidence on the part of their targets. The IRA, for example, calculated correctly that the British had the capability to smash them totally but not the will. So they knew that while they could never win militarily, they also could never be defeated. The Islamists have figured similarly. The only
difference is that most terrorist wars are highly localized. We now have the first truly global terrorist insurgency because the Islamists view the whole world the way the IRA view the bogs of Fermanagh: They want it, and they've calculated that our entire civilization lacks the will to see them off.

- From America Alone: The End of the World as We Know it, by Mark Steyn. Published by Regnery Publishing, Inc. Copyright (Copyright) 2006 by Mark Steyn.
A fourth excerpt from America Alone: Steyn on Islamic terrorism and Western self-censorship;
Visit nationalpost.com for previous excerpts.
Ran with fact box "Tomorrow" which has been appended to thestory.
© National Post 2006

Monday November 20, 2006
Who is that masked man??

Whoops we should say, "Who is that masked woman?", well at least we think it is a woman.

In our society today if someone walked into a bank with their face covered, a clerk would hit the alarm button to summon the law. Wait a minute if that person has their face covered and is wearing a long full body covering atttire  called a burka it does not cause anyone any panic.

I am surprised that some enterprising bank robbers haven't used this ploy to rob a bank. Not to worry, though, sooner or later someone will catch on and use this gimmick to do do just that. I am surprised that a terrorist hasn't walked into a North American bank dressed in a burka with dynamite underneath it and blown the bank and it's clientelle to smithereens. When this finally happens, maybe then our Canadian government will do something about it.

Fortunately there are other countries who have half a brain in their head and are trying to do something about this situtation before it comes down to the my suggestions above.  Below you will find a newspaper article that shows what is happening around the world when it comes to these masked people. North American culture has always seen people who cover their faces as the villains, the bad guys, the highwaymen, the bank robbers, heck even when we have masked good guys the law treats them as possible bad guys. So why is it that we allow this face covering to go on in our society today just because Muslims feel that their women are so much better than ours that they have to hide their faces or we will be enticed into immoral acts of wanton sexual abandon. Give me a frackin' break.

Look when we go to their countries our women have to obey their laws and cover up. So why is that when these people come to our country they do not abide by our customs? It's their religion, they say and they want us to respect this, so why do they disrespect us when we go to their countires and force us to comply with their religious dogma when it isn't our religion? Okay you politically correct activists, explain that one to us.

Read this newspaper article... BURKAS UNVEILED AS AN ELECTION ISSUE. It is time that North America stepped into line with these other countries and did something about this veiled problem before we are forced to do it when the loss of life is the aftermath.

Learn from history.

Friday November 03, 2006
Hot for martyrdom

This is a guest comment from Thom Gillian. Thanks for sending in the article.

Click here to read this really interesting article. I must say it opened my eyes a bit and this is new to me as well but it is rather scary.

Hot for martyrdom

Friday October 27, 2006
Muslim Cleric Compare Women to Uncovered Meat

Well at least one Muslim cleric had  the cajones to say what is really on the thoughts of many hardcore Muslims. Cleric Sheik Taj Aldin al Hilali spoke like a lot  of Christian fundementalists, sort of, but he took it  a bit too far.

This article I read comes from Sydney, Australia. One of that countries most senior Islamic clerics, who has advised the government on Islamic matters, has triggered outrage after his rather nasty remarks. In a sermon in September he made some comments that do not sit well with most people. This religious figure compared women who do not wear a headscarf to "uncovered meat" who invite rape.

This is the quote: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside....without cover, and the cats come to eat it....whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred."

You know, if any westerner were to make these comments we would be branded misogynist deviants who see women as sex objects. We would have our name plastered all over the place as crass, ignorant bastards who should be castrated. Yet these religious zealots  can come into our society, where we are told that the way women dress or act does not give us the right to treat women as sex objects to be raped or abused, and they can say this crap and no one really censures them. I can see why Muslim men like this arrangements. They can hide their women and treat them as possesions who have to do whatever  they are told or tehy might get raped.

Don't get me wrong here, I personally know quite a few Muslims who treat their wives with respect and not as second class citizens. Still, isn't it time where the different governments stepped in and forced these Islamic zealots to realize that just because they can't control their biological urges around women, that they do not have the right to treat women like meat that are only there to tempt men into rape.

Years ago when I was 20 I remember standing outside a donut shop with the owner. As we talked a young girl with a short mini dress walked by. As he looked at her, he said that if she went around dressed like that she shouldn't complain if  she got raped. You know I was disgusted by that comment back then and I'm even more disgusted today, by these idiot comments, by clerics who have no respect for themselves or their own people by thinking that their male congregation is not capable of controlling themselves around half naked women.

Oh wait, I don't see any articles about Muslim men going around raping western women because they dress the way they do. Do you think that it's because they know the difference between right and wrong. Heaven forbid if they could only tell right from wrong based on a piece of stupid cloth wrapped around a woman's face. Then again maybe western women are such dogs that even uncovered they are like rancid meat and even rapists wouldn't want to go near them. Do you think that is why they don't rape the uncovered meat of western women? Maybe, just maybe most Islamic men do know the difference between right and wrong and they are not such evil family men that would rape women because they can see their hair or face.

Like I said before, maybe we should ban religion worldwide and then we may live a more  peaceful life by just holding God in our hearts and not adultrate his good name.

Wednesday October 25, 2006
Photos that speak for themselves

Wednesday October 25, 2006
'HEROES' The Best New Show On Television

Even though the one show I never miss is BOSTON LEGAL, this year the new show HEROES has now taken over as my favourite television show. If you have never seen it then shame on you. Satart watching it now before it gets in too deep. Catch all the reruns you can.

Head over to the NBC HEROES site to catch up on some of the shows. They have even put up some online comics to fill in some of the blanks from the show. Nicely drawn and very informative. Online are some short graphic novels to read.

You can even read viewers comments and discussions on the show and see show videos on the making of the show as well.

You can go to TV.com to read up on each episode so far as well. But keep an eye out for reruns like they did on Sunday when they screened three episodes on NBC. I hope they do mor eof this to give people a chance to catch up on the episodes they missed.

NBC has ordered the full seasons 22 episodes and it is a certainity to continue next year. Well worth watching.

Sunday October 15, 2006
religious wars and ethnic violence---guest editorial

BOB DIXON writes:

It seems to me that the religious wars and ethnic violence are
continuously manufactured by the large financial and social elite's, and always have been. This all about enslavement of men and populations. The sooner they can get you hooked on the material and wealth, those nice houses, the car(s) and the many toys you are subliminally told you must have, or you are a utter failure. Once bound by debt, they have us! Now you can be taught to hate, to obey, to submit to the rule of fear.

First all should understand and be reminded that news is made by ALL governments for us, to control and remove your own independent opinions. If you would first remove all financial debt, holding only assets no matter how modest, living within your debt free means, you will find a freedom to think for yourself again.

If you are not bound, why would you care at all about the middle east? Do your young school kids give a damn? No. Why should they, it is not natural. Do they naturally worry about god or goddess?  No. Do they have a built in violent nature to the point they will strike beat, hurt, injure and kill another child? Positively YES! That is true innate human nature displayed unabashed .

Our problems are largely overpopulation related. The number one sin of  man according to the ancient gods was overpopulation. We once again are to repeat the thinning of mankind perhaps near extinction as in our past history.

Can we not admit we are in fact demon seed, and we can't live with ourselves in peace. Just too many gods on the planet. We in fact are the causal of the ruination of this planet and our future.

Thursday October 12, 2006
I was right.

It seems that I was right about audiences not wanting to invest time in television prime time serials. Some like 'SMITH', 'SIX DEGREES' and 'KIDNAPPED' have already been cancelled. I am sure more will go down that road.

I have to give credit to NBC for at least letting 'KIDNAPPED' finish it's story line in a shortened 13 episodes, of course cramming it into a Saturday night schedule means even fewer people will see it.

'HEROES' is the best serial this year and I am sure it will survive as it's ratings are good. It is great and if it gets pulled at the end of the season, I may have to give up on serials all together in the future. If you haven't seen it you are missing a great series. Watch it.

Thursday October 12, 2006
Iman is trying to rewrite history

I was reading the letters to the editor today and saw a letter from Joseph Gamero that responded to all the crap that was going on about the Pope supposedly criticizing Islam. Joseph rightfully pointed out how the Pope had no reason to apologize unless Muslims are trying to rewrite history. I've never heard of Christians trying to rewrite history about the Crusades when Christians fought Muslims. It seems that now Muslim teachers are trying to rewrite their own history so as to not having to acknowledge all the countries they invaded in the past to convert people to Islam by the sword.

Anyway Joseph's letter outlines the history so check it out by clicking here...Article.

Monday October 02, 2006
SHOT TO HEAD...OK! SMOKING CIGAR...NOT OKAY!

Here's a good one for you all to ponder. It seems that the new James Bond actor Daniel Craig is upset, with good reason. He is furious that in the new Bond thriller, Casino Royale, coming this November he is not allowed to smoke.

Craig told Parade Magazine: "I can blow off someone's head at close range and splatter blood, but I can't light a good Cuban cigar."

Well that about sums up our new culture in North America and the rest of the world. Smoking bad...nudity and sex....bad.....killing and blowing people up...good. The US government bitches about Janet Jackson's nipple on television. Britain wants smoking cut out of Tom & Jerry cartoons and out of James Bond movies but it's okay for both of them to show lots of violence. Mother's ask theatre managers if there is sex in a movie but are okay with violence. What is this world coming to?

Television is filled with violence, more grisly corpses and graphic scenes of peoples innards but heaven forbid if television is allowed to show a little round section of a female body ( Which all females seem to possess). What has happened to society that has caused it to be so askew?

Well at least, we who live in Canada get to see nudity on regular television when it is appropriate and we even get to hear swear words on regualr television. Most Canadian shows do tend to cut down on grusesome violence of course. That is changing slowly as well.

To you people out there in USland especially....get a grip. Then again as the religious factions in USland grow and get more control, you can expect it to get worse. As you know virtually all religions cause and accept violence but sex is a taboo. This is one thing that Christians and Muslims have in common. Of course they had two men who preached against violence which both religions follow...so how did we turn everything around.

We humans do not deserve to have had these two great men in our midst. We despoiled everything they stood for. We should be ashamed of our selves. Really, making a big deal out of a cigar, a nipple and social cartoon satire...we should be ashamed of ourselves. Time for the the most perfect creature on earth to take over ....lets hear it for the cockroach.